Open AccessIncreasing myocardial infarction mortality trends in a middle-income country
Author(s) -
Javier A. Balda-Canizares,
Leonardo Tamariz,
Daniel Moreno-Zambrano,
Denisse Pareja,
Esteban OrtizPrado,
Alfredo Palacio,
Ana Palacio
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.83
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2223-3660
pISSN - 2223-3652
DOI - 10.21037/cdt.2018.07.03
Subject(s) - medicine , demography , mortality rate , ethnic group , population , myocardial infarction , census , environmental health , sociology , anthropology
Developed countries continue to show a decrease in cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. Little is known about CVD mortality trends in low and middle-income countries. The aim of our study is to describe myocardial infarction (MI) mortality trends and evaluate if differences between ethnic groups and geographic regions are present among the Ecuadorians with acute MI.