Health is essential and essential for anyone. Now it has been given greater relevance due to the pandemic that is being experienced but in reality it is something that it has always had. Now, although all the services are necessary, there is one in particular that cannot be ignored, especially due to the current lifestyle and it is that of Cardiology. Do you know which are the best hospitals for this specialty in the world?
Making a selection is always complicated but in this case we are based on the results of the ranking World’s Best Specialized Hospitals 2022. This is a study published annually by Newsweek magazine in conjunction with the Statista database portal.
For the most recent version they were analyzed more than two thousand hospitals around the planet. Those from 25 countries were taken into account, including the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, India, Japan and Mexico.
The evaluation was based on three main parameters
- Recommendations from medical experts (doctors, hospital managers, health professionals).
- Results of patient surveys.
- Performance of doctors in hospitals.
The best cardiology hospitals in the world
While one of the most important aspects of the job is that hospitals can be reviewed for their specialty. In this way, when reviewing those that have the Cardiology service, it is obtained that the best in the world are:
- Massachusetts General Hospital – United States
- Cleveland Clinic – United States
- Mayo Clinic – United States
- The Mount Sinai Hospital – United States
- Brigham And Women’s Hospital – United States
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell – United States
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital – United States
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Smidt Heart Institute – United States
- Royal Brompton Hospital – United Kingdom
- AP-HP – Hôpital Universitaire Pitié Salpêtrière – France
What is striking is the absolute dominance of the United States. The first eight positions correspond to hospitals in that nation. While the rest are located in the United Kingdom and France.
While Cardiology is one of the most important specialties today for the area in which it focuses. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cardiovascular diseases represent the first cause of death on the planet.
More precisely, ischemic heart disease ranks as the person responsible for the largest number of deaths in the world. It is currently behind 16 out of every 100 deaths that are recorded. Since 2000, the largest increase in deaths corresponds to this disease. It has gone from more than two million deaths in 2000 to 8.9 million in 2019. Stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are the second and third causes of death, accounting for approximately 11 and 6 percent of all deaths, respectively.