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Coronary Heart Disease Mortality Declines in the United States From 1979 Through 2011

Author(s) -

Kobina Wilmot,

Martín O’Flaherty,

Simon Capewell,

Earl S. Ford,

Viola Vaccarino

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.115.015293

Subject(s) - medicine , demography , mortality rate , falling (accident) , coronary heart disease , incidence (geometry) , gerontology , cardiology , environmental health , surgery , optics , physics , sociology

Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates have fallen dramatically over the past 4 decades in the Western world. However, recent data from the United States and elsewhere suggest a plateauing of CHD incidence and mortality among young women. We therefore examined recent trends in CHD mortality rates in the United States according to age and sex.

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