Key result
Out-of-hospital and emergency room ischemic heart disease death rates declined 19% in white men aged 35-74 years between 1980 and 1985, accounting for 61% of the total absolute decline.
Population
Persons aged 35-74 years in 40 states of the United States who died of ischemic heart disease between 1980…
Design
Cross-sectional
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Declines in out-of-hospital IHD deaths drove most 1980s mortality reductions; leaves open relevance to contemporary diverse populations and therapies.
Observational
Yes
The decline in out-of-hospital and emergency room deaths accounted for the majority of the total absolute decline in ischemic heart disease death rates between 1980 and 1985 in the US.
Richard F. Gillum (1989) conducted an observational in Ischemic heart disease. Out-of-hospital and emergency room ischemic heart disease death rates declined 19% in white men aged 35-74 years between 1980 and 1985, accounting for 61% of the total absolute decline.
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