4. HEALTH CARE ACTIVITIES 4.6. Cardiac procedures (coronary bypass and angioplasty) Heart diseases are a leading cause of hospitalisation The large variations in the number of revascularisation and death in OECD countries (see Indicator 1.4). procedures across countries do not seem to be closely Coronary artery bypass graft and angioplasty are two related to the incidence of ischemic heart disease revascularisation procedures that have revolutionised (IHD), as measured by IHD mortality (Figure 4.6.3). IHD the treatment of ischemic heart diseases in recent mortality in Germany is only slightly higher than the decades. average across OECD countries, but Germany has the There is considerable variation across countries in the highest rate of revascularisation procedures. On the use of coronary bypass surgery and angioplasty other hand, IHD mortality in Hungary and Finland is (Figure 4.6.1). Germany, the United States and Belgium well above the OECD average, while revascularisation have the highest rates
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