Dear Editor I appreciate the efforts of Alves et al. when they tried to evaluate all-cause in-hospital mortality in patients admitted for STEMI and NSTEMI in hospitals in Latin America and the Caribbean from 2000 onward, concluding that in-hospital mortality in low- and middle-income countries was high in comparison with rates reported in high-income countries and to improve these estimates, higher use of reperfusion therapy must be pursued. […]
