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More hospital stays for heart infarction
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Patient statistics, 2006

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More hospital stays for heart infarction

Of the more than 820 000 stays at general hospitals during 2006, 14 per cent were caused by diseases of the circulatory system. Among these, acute myocardial infarction was the most frequent main diagnosis with almost 19 000 stays, a growth of 60 per cent from 2000.

The most common cause of admissions to hospitals was diseases of the circulatory system. . Injuries and poisoning was the second most usual group with more than ten per cent of the diagnoses. Each tenth inpatient stay was due to cancer, and pregnancy and births caused 8.6 per cent of the admissions.

Hospital stays1 for diseases of the circulatory system. 2000-2006
Main diagnosis Year Change 2000-2006, per cent
2000 2002 2004 2006
Diseases of the circulatory system, total  101 051  107 944  113 483  115 827 14.6
Acute myocardial infarction2 11 816 15 685 17 835 18 908 60.0
Angina pectoris 19 870 16 035 15 510 14 650 -26.3
Other acute ischaemic diseases 7 488 10 670 11 077 11 982 60.0
Cerebrovascular diseases 14 307 14 824 15 728 15 980 11.7
Cardiac dysrhythmias 12 025 12 707 13 180 15 161 26.1
Heart failure 8 303 8 398 9 390 8 938 7.6
Other diseases in the circulatory system 27 242 29 625 30 763 30 208 10.9
1  Foreign residents stays excluded.
2  Acute complications after acute myocardial infarction included.

Increase in circulatory diseases

There was a growth of 15 per cent in hospital stays for diseases of the circulatory system in the period 2000-2006. Heart infarction caused 18 908 stays in 2006, a growth of 60 per cent since 2000. Lifestyle related factors and an aging population might explain some of the growth. 3 out of 4 stays caused by heart infarction were for patients 60 years or older. Also, there was a recommended change in the criteria for diagnosing acute myocardial infarction in 2000 that possibly can explain some of the increase in infarction and part of the decline in angina pectoris. The latter had a fall of 5 220 in the number of hospital stays since 2000.

More treatments

There was an increase of 1.8 per cent in the number of inpatient stays from 2005 to 2006, when there were 824 441 discharges after stays in general hospitals. Day cases increased by 7.5 per cent, and in 2006, there were almost 544 000 day cases. There were about 3 545 000 outpatient consultations, an increase of 94 000 from the previous year.

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