The rate of death from acute myocardial infarction has improved from 8.8% to 4.4% in the latest study (2010) since that urgent treatment is performed at the first symptoms. There are 70 to 100 000 deaths from sudden death in adults each year and in total, cardiovascular disease kills 150 000 180 000 persons per year, making it the leading cause of mortality in the country by year.
WHO figure at about one third of those deaths worldwide caused by cardiovascular disease. The reduction factors of cardiovascular risk and improved therapeutic care have however reduced by almost half the deaths from cardiac causes in the U.S. between 1980 and 2000. [2] In this country, roughly one third of deaths are from cardiovascular and one in five deaths was secondary to coronary artery disease. One in eight deaths involving heart failure (2005 data). If more people were trained in first aid, it is estimated that it could increase from 2% to 20% survival for sudden death (in 2004, only about 6% of the French population is made up of gestures first aid )….
