Explaining the decline in coronary heart disease mortality in Turkey between 1995 and 2008.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates have been decreasing in Turkey since the early 1990s. Our study aimed to determine how much of the CHD mortality decrease in Turkey between 1995 and 2008 could be attributed to temporal trends in major risk factors and how much to advances in medical and surgical treatments.

Methods

The validated IMPACT CHD mortality model was used to combine and analyse data on uptake and effectiveness of CHD treatments and risk factor trends in Turkey in adults aged 35-84 years between 1995 and 2008.Data sources were identified, searched and appraised on population, mortality and major CHD risk factors for adults those aged 35-84 years. Official statistics, electronic databases, national registers, surveys and published trials were sc

SUBMITTER: Unal B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4234124 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature