(edit title) Silly TL double posting rule Can someone else please help? Options

[Shibumi]

I commented earlier on this Local article http://www.thelocal.se/41286/20120607/ asking for the source on a Swedish heart attack mortality rate statistic cited by another commenter. Since then I have found further info and I would like to set the record straight, but the comment robot will not allow me to post twice in a row. Could someone please post a comment in the article so that I can post my follow-up?

Thank you.

[cbgbg]

ok

[Shibumi]

Thanks cbgbg, I appreciate the help. However, it's been over half an hour and your comment has not yet appeared in the article. Are you having trouble posting?

[Shibumi]

Well it looks like cbgbg got distracted and is now offline. Can someone else please either comment in the article or simply copy paste the text below as a comment in http://www.thelocal.se/41286/20120607/ ? Sweden's health care system gets slammed enough without egregious misinformation adding to the situation... Thanks for the help... this is really bothering me!

copy below here------------------------

Forwarded from Shibumi who is not allowed to post twice in a row:

@Scepticion #8

The only stat I could find so far suggests that you are reversing survival and mortality rates. There is a 7% chance that someone hospitalized for cardiac arrest in Sweden will *die* during hospitalization. That's a 7% mortality rate which equals a 93% survival rate... NOT the 7% survival rate you cite.

Sourced from an article discussing a study on Swedish cardiac care, published in April 2011 in the Journal of the American Medical Association: http://m.npr.org/news/front/135745101?singlePage=true

"Here are the Swedish results, which span a period from 1996 and 2007:
Deaths during hospitalization after a heart attack went down from 13 percent to 7 percent.
Deaths in the 30 days following a heart attack decreased from 15 percent to 9 percent.
One-year mortality post-heart attack dropped from 21 percent to 13 percent."

[Puffin]

you can post now as I have made an interim post- there is a rule against consecutive posts to stop the news boards getting spammed

[Shibumi]

Thanks Puffin!