Conor Stewart
Research expert covering health & pharmaceuticals in the UK & Europe
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Heart attack is the second-leading cardiovascular death in the Scandinavian country, with a death rate of around 36 deaths per hundred thousand inhabitants. In Sweden, men are much more likely to experience a heart attack than women, although the number of heart attacks for both genders has dropped significantly over the last two decades. In 2021, around 20 thousand patients were admitted to the hospital due to heart attacks in Sweden. A person having a heart attack (outside of a healthcare environment) has around an 11 percent chance of survival, a rate that has changed very little over the last decade.Treatments and transplants
There are different ways to treat patients suffering from cardiovascular disease which include heart surgery and transplant. The most common heart surgery carried out in the country is on coronary arteries, while other common surgeries include those to fix heart arrythmia and procedures on the aortic valve. Across 2022, 54 heart transplants were carried out in Sweden, although a further 33 patients were still waiting for a transplant on the waiting list.
