Thirty-Year Mortality After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Thirty-Year Mortality After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: A Danish Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study – Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Many good years after heart bypass surgery, but something happens after ten years – Aarhus University, via Science Daily (free)

“For patients who make it through the first month after the operation is close to that of the population in general. But 8-10 years after a heart bypass operation, mortality increases by 60-80 per cent” (from Science Daily)