New health atlas
One in seven received rehabilitation after a heart attack.
Between 2018 and 2021, only one in seven patients with acute myocardial infarction received standardised rehabilitation. This is despite the fact that the benefits of such cardiac rehabilitation are very well documented.
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If we also include other types of follow-up measures for patients, such as learning and mastery courses or rehabilitation in specialist healthcare, the figure is one in four.
The number of Norwegians affected by acute heart attacks has decreased by three per cent each year since 2015, but nearly 11,000 patients still experience acute heart attacks in Norway each year.
The new Health Atlas on heart attacks shows that 14 per cent, or one in seven patients, received standardised rehabilitation after an acute infarction. The Health Atlas also reveals significant, unjustified geographical variations in the level of rehabilitation.
Here you can find the complete new Health Atlas on heart attacks.
The atlas has been created by Health Førde.