By Professor John Robertson OBA

From Public Health Scotland, today, the above graph, and:

The rate of hospital discharges of patients with a heart attack has decreased by 20% in the past 10 years.

In 2023/24, 94% of people survived 30 days or more following their first heart attack, which is largely unchanged over the past decade.

The rate at which new cases of coronary heart disease occur (the incidence) has fallen by 12% over the last 10 years. _{https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/scottish-cardiac-audit-programme-scap/scottish-cardiac-audit-programme-report-20232024/}