codes fixed-effects regression models on the following AMI outcomes: time-specific mortality rates, age, and probability of … PTCA on the day of admission. We find a small increase in 30-day to 1-year mortality rates among patients in communities … time, we find a substantial increase in long-term mortality rates, a shift to younger ages (suggesting that the older ones …

accidents, heart attacks and strokes. In this paper, we examine the short-term mortality consequences of income receipt. We find … that mortality increases following the arrival of monthly Social Security payments, regular wage payments for military … personnel, the 2001 tax rebates, and Alaska Permanent Fund dividend payments. The increase in short-run mortality is large …

.35) percentage point increase in 90-day and 1-year mortality, respectively, compared with those not experiencing changes in distance …. Our results also suggest that the predominant mechanism behind the mortality increase appeared to be time delay as opposed …

variance in current CVD mortality rates across the country …

one percentage point reduction in unemployment is predicted to raise AMI mortality by 1.3 percent, with a larger increase … the frail elderly. AMI mortality risk quickly rises when the economy strengthens and increases further if the favorable …

mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither …

This paper examines the causes and consequences of reductions in cardiovascular disease mortality, and in particular … heart attack mortality, over the past several decades. Analysis of data from Medicare and review of the clinical literature … indicate that a large share of the recent decline in heart attack mortality is a result of new medical interventions and …