Explaining trends in Scottish coronary heart disease mortality between 2000 and 2010 using IMPACTSEC model: retrospective analysis using routine data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To quantify the contributions of prevention and treatment to the trends in mortality due to coronary heart disease in Scotland.

Design

Retrospective analysis using IMPACTSEC, a previously validated policy model, to apportion the recent decline in coronary heart disease mortality to changes in major cardiovascular risk factors and to increases in more than 40 treatments in nine non-overlapping groups of patients.

Setting

Scotland.

Participants

All adults aged 25 years or over, stratified by sex, age group, and fifths of Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation.

Main outcome measure

Deaths prevented or postponed.

Results

5770 fewer deaths from coronary heart disease occurred in 2010 than would be expected if the 2000 mortality rates had pers

SUBMITTER: Hotchkiss JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3915926 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature