Thirty-year trends in mortality from cardiovascular diseases in Korea.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:An understanding of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) mortality is important for the development of strategies aimed at reducing the burden of CVD. Thus, we examined the changing pattern of CVD mortality in Korea over 30 years (1983-2012) by analyzing the Cause of Death Statistics. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Deaths from diseases of the circulatory system and those of five CVD categories were analyzed: total heart diseases, acute rheumatic fever/chronic rheumatic heart disease, hypertensive heart disease, ischemic heart disease (IHD) and atherosclerosis. To assess the effects of population ageing on CVD mortality, crude and age-adjusted mortality rates were calculated. Age-adjusted mortality rates were calculated by using the direct standardization method. RESULTS:Over the

SUBMITTER: Lee SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4446814 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature