Macrosimulation modeling study reveals modifiable risk factors drive one-third of excess rural heart disease mortality, indicating unmeasured determinants explain the remaining gap.
A significant portion of deaths from CVD and IHD could be averted with improvements in risk factors; more than one-third of the excess IHD deaths in rural Australia were attributed to differences in risk factors. As much as two-thirds of the increased IHD mortality rate in rural areas could not be accounted for by modifiable risk factors, however, and this requires further investigation.
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