CHANGING MORTALITY PATTERNS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Changing patterns of cardiovascular diseases and cancer mortality in Portugal, 1980–2010

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases and cancer are jointly responsible for more than half all deaths in Portugal. They also share some important risk factors and act as mutual competing risks. We aimed firstly to describe time trends in death rates and years of life lost due to cardiovascular diseases and cancer in the Portuguese population from 1980 to 2010; and secondly to quantify the contrib...

Changing patterns of childhood mortality in Wolverhampton.

OBJECTIVES To review the incidence and characteristics of preventable childhood deaths in an urban population in the UK and to determine whether the excess of preventable deaths seen previously in Asian girls still exists. DESIGN A retrospective survey of childhood deaths from 1996-2002 classified in terms of preventability and compared with a previous study conducted 20 years earlier from 19...

Geographical mortality distribution of cardiovascular diseases: First report from South Khorasan, Iran

Researching the changing social pattern of cardiovascular diseases.

In many Western countries, despite declining overall mortality from cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) since the 1970s, the relative diVerence in disease rates between the richest and poorest groups has widened. Both stroke and coronary heart disease (CHD), the main contributors to CVD mortality, have a multifactorial aetiology. However, debate continues about the relative importance of a large num...

Added sugar intake and cardiovascular diseases mortality among US adults.

IMPORTANCE Epidemiologic studies have suggested that higher intake of added sugar is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. Few prospective studies have examined the association of added sugar intake with CVD mortality. OBJECTIVE To examine time trends of added sugar consumption as percentage of daily calories in the United States and investigate the association of this cons...