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Heart Attack in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables
A dataset of news about heart attack and cardiac arrest from a global news index, January 2019 – July 2026, built with the Prism News API (historical and real-time news, https://radar-api.fliarbi.com/news). Every row is one news article that names a heart attack, cardiac arrest or myocardial infarction in its opening, with its date, location, tone, editorial priority, themes and the organisations it names, plus a link that returns the full article through the API.
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Key findings
January 2023, the month of Damar Hamlin's on-field cardiac arrest, was the month in which heart attack and cardiac arrest took their largest share of global news between January 2019 and July 2026, at 19.89 articles per 10,000 news articles, 2.23 times the 2023 annual share of 8.93.
Basis: Monthly matched articles divided by all articles in the index for the same month, every month from January 2019 to July 2026.
Heart attack and cardiac arrest took a 31.7% smaller share of news coverage in 2025 than in 2019 (6.04 against 8.84 articles per 10,000 news articles), and the highest annual share between 2019 and 2025 was in 2023, at 8.93.
Basis: Annual matched articles divided by all articles in the index for the same year; 2026 is partial and omitted.
Of heart attack and cardiac arrest articles carrying a tone label between January 2023 and July 2026, 61.9% were negative in tone, 1.84 times the 33.6% negative share across all news in the same index.
Basis: Top sentiment label of each article, grouped into negative, neutral and positive.
A machine-assigned editorial priority rating placed 80.4% of heart attack and cardiac arrest articles at critical priority (7 or higher on a 1–9 scale) between January 2023 and July 2026, 1.89 times the 42.6% share for all news.
Basis: Top priority label per article; critical = priority ≥ 7.
Between January 2023 and July 2026, the most common themes in heart attack and cardiac arrest news were obituaries and memorial services (9.75% of themed articles), heart attack recovery (9.53%), celebrity deaths (6.73%) and sports injury reports (6.58%).
Basis: Theme labels assigned to each article; one article can carry several themes.
Charts and maps
Coverage by country
Primary location of located articles, January 2023 – July 2026. Lift = the country's share of this topic's news ÷ its share of all located news (above 1 = over-covered).
| Country | Articles | Share | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9,803 | 40.15% | 0.83 |
| India | 6,837 | 28.0% | 2.12 |
| United Kingdom | 2,040 | 8.36% | 1.43 |
| France | 488 | 2.0% | 1.01 |
| Australia | 478 | 1.96% | 0.91 |
| Brazil | 333 | 1.36% | 1.58 |
| China | 320 | 1.31% | 0.5 |
| Canada | 292 | 1.2% | 0.56 |
| Spain | 224 | 0.92% | 0.94 |
| Italy | 209 | 0.86% | 0.88 |
| South Korea | 208 | 0.85% | 1.42 |
| Singapore | 153 | 0.63% | 0.7 |
| Germany | 151 | 0.62% | 0.53 |
| Japan | 149 | 0.61% | 0.57 |
| Bangladesh | 149 | 0.61% | 2.36 |
Use the API
This dataset was built with the Prism News API, which serves historical and real-time news. Install the command-line client, log in with an API key, and query the topic yourself:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fliarbi/prism-news-api/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
prism-news login
prism-news trends "heart attack" --granularity monthly --tableCite
Fliar BI. Heart Attack in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables. January 2019 – July 2026. https://fliarbi.github.io/news-datasets/heart-attack/