Researchers studied the median time to primary percutaneous coronary intervention for patients with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction from 2005-2010. In addition to the overall time decrease over these five years, the percentage of patients who had times less than 90 minutes and less than 75 minutes increased. The median times decreased the most for the groups that had the highest median times in 2005 — patients older than 75 years, women and blacks.
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