Variations in vascular mortality trends, 2001-2010, among 1.3 million women with different lifestyle risk factors for the disease.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Vascular disease mortality has declined rapidly in most Western countries, against a background of improved treatments and falling prevalence of smoking, but rising obesity. We examined whether this decline differed by lifestyle risk factors for vascular disease.

Methods and results

During 2001-2010, there were 9241 vascular disease deaths in a prospective study of 1.3 million women in middle age, about one-quarter of all UK women in the eligible age range (50-64 years in 1996-2001). We estimated percentage declines in mortality from coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease and other vascular diseases, overall and by age, smoking, alcohol consumption, adiposity, physical activity, socioeconomic status and age at leaving school. Over 10 years, coronary heart disea

SUBMITTER: Cairns BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4639812 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature