Goldberg RJ, et al. - Among 3,737 adult residents of central Massachusetts hospitalized with a first acute myocardial infarction (AMI) at 11 area medical centers on a biennial basis between 2001 and 2011 (decade long), researchers assessed the trends in the incidence rates of initial hospitalized episodes of AMI, with further stratification of these rates by age, sex, and type of AMI. Compared with patients hospitalized in the earliest study years (2001/03), those hospitalized during the most recent study years (2009/11) were younger, more likely to be men, have more comorbidities, and less in-hospital complications. Findings suggested appreciable decline (from 319 to 163) in the overall age-adjusted hospital incidence rates (per 100,000 persons) of initial AMI, for men (from 422 to 219), women (from 232 to 120), patients with a STEMI (129 to 56), and those with an NSTEMI (190 to 107) between 2001 and 2011, respectively.