Diverging trends in risk factors such as smoking and lipids may explain the increasing CHD incidence among younger women despite decreasing incidence and mortality among older women and men in Sweden over 20 years.
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Rising non-fatal MI in middle-aged women merits surveillance; leaves open whether risk-factor divergences drive sex-specific CHD trends.
Wilhelmsen et al. (1989) studied this question.
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