Differences in declining mortality rates due to coronary heart disease by neighbourhood deprivation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the main cause of death in most industrialised countries, including those in Europe. The mortality rates due to coronary heart disease (CHD), one of the most serious CVD conditions, have been decreasing in most European countries during the last decades. However, whether the trends over time in CHD mortality rates differ depending on neighbourhood deprivation has rarely been investigated.

Methods

For each year of the study period, 1988-2012, in Sweden, age-standardised mortality rates were calculated for three different types of neighbourhoods, characterised by a Neighbourhood Deprivation Index. Joinpoint regression was used to investigate potential changes in age-standardised mortality rates by neighbourhood deprivation and over ti

SUBMITTER: Oudin Astrom D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6711481 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature