Why the study?
To what extent can trends in risk factor levels (smoking, blood pressure, cholesterol) explain trends in ischaemic heart disease mortality rates in populations?
Population
Australian population during the 1980s
Design
Other
Follow-up
1980s
Authors
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Supports emphasis on smoking cessation and BP control for IHD prevention; leaves open contributions of unmeasured factors to mortality trends.
To what extent can trends in risk factor levels (smoking, blood pressure, cholesterol) explain trends in ischaemic heart disease mortality rates in populations?
Ecological analyses suggest that population-level improvements in blood pressure and smoking can explain about half of the decline in ischaemic heart disease mortality in men during the 1980s in Australia.
Annette J. Dobson (1994) studied this question.
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