Mortality from heart failure, acute myocardial infarction and other ischaemic heart disease in England and Oxford: a trend study of multiple-cause-coded death certification
Key result
A 30-year analysis of death registration data in England showed mortality rates declined by 60% for heart failure, 80% for acute myocardial infarction, and 46% for non-AMI ischaemic heart disease.
Population
People aged 35 years and over in England and the Oxford region
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
30 years (1981 to 2010)
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Implication
Declining HF and IHD mortality in England merits ongoing surveillance; extends long-term observational trends but leaves open causal drivers.
Study Design
Type
Observational
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Population
People aged 35 years and over in England (population 52 million, 1995-2010) and the Oxford region (population 2.5 million, 1981-2010)
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Outcome
Temporal trends in mortality from heart failure, acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and non-AMI ischaemic heart disease (IHD)hard clinical
There have been large and sustained reductions in mortality rates from heart failure, AMI, and non-AMI IHD over a 30-year period in England.
Cite This Study
Rahimi et al. (2015) conducted an observational in Heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, and non-AMI ischaemic heart disease. A 30-year analysis of death registration data in England showed mortality rates declined by 60% for heart failure, 80% for acute myocardial infarction, and 46% for non-AMI ischaemic heart disease.