Israelis take too long to get to hospital, but heart attack mortality rate down 50% since 2000

Despite taking an average of nearly two hours to get to the hospital after a heart attack starts, the mortality rate from heart attacks for Israelis has dropped from 5.4 % in 2000 to 2.2% by 2010. By comparison, the mortality rate in the United States for heart attack victims in 2010 was 16.2%. The study, the full results of which are to be released at a conference next week in Tel Aviv, says