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Hospital heart attack patients do better on weekdays
By Josh Goldstein
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

There's never a good time to have a heart attack, but some days are apparently worse than others.
A study published in today's New England Journal of Medicine reports that New Jersey heart attack patients admitted to hospitals on weekends between 1987 and 2002 were more likely to die than those who went in during the week.
The death rate for weekend heart attack sufferers was significantly higher one day after admission as well as at one month, six months and a year later, according to the analysis by researchers from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
"Our research suggests that a lower use of invasive procedures, such as angioplasty, to unblock arteries in patients admitted over the weekend is part of the difference," said William J. Kostis, a medical student at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick and the study's lead author.