Decline in mortality from coronary heart disease in Poland after socioeconomic transformation: modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine how much of the observed rapid decrease in mortality from coronary heart disease in Poland after the political, social, and economic transformation in the early 1990s could be explained by the use of medical and surgical treatments and how much by changes in cardiovascular risk factors.

Design

A modelling study.

Setting

Sources of data included controlled trials and meta-analyses, national surveys, and official statistics.

Participants

Population of adults aged 25-74 in Poland in 1991-2005.

Main outcome measures

Number of deaths prevented or postponed in 2005 attributable to specific treatments for coronary heart disease and changes in risk factors. A previously validated epidemiological model for coronary heart disease was used to

SUBMITTER: Bandosz P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3266431 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature