Key result
Autopsy review assesses the incidence of fatal cardiovascular disease.
Observational (n=2,066)
No
Provides historical epidemiological data on fatal cardiovascular disease incidence based on an autopsy series from 1928-1938 in South Carolina.
Historical autopsy data contextualize past fatal CVD patterns; leaves open relevance to contemporary populations and practice.
A series of 2,066 consecutive autopsies performed by the staff of the department of pathology of the Medical College of the State of South Carolina from Jan. 1, 1928 through May 1938 has been reviewed by us as a statistical study of cardiovascular disease in the South, particularly among American Negroes. Instances of trauma to the heart or vessels have been excluded, but all other cases are included. During this period all the autopsies done in the County of Charleston were performed by a member of this staff, including investigations authorized by the coroner in cases of sudden death. Furthermore, since most of the cases prior to about 1935 were from the charity services of the Roper Hospital—a general county hospital for white persons and Negroes—there has been little or no migration of patients, and the results as given here can be taken as representative of fatal cardiovascular disease in
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Thomas M. Peery (1939) conducted an observational in Fatal cardiovascular disease (n=2,066). Autopsy evaluation was evaluated on Incidence of fatal cardiovascular disease. A review of 2,066 consecutive autopsies was conducted to assess fatal cardiovascular disease incidence, but quantitative results are not provided in the truncated abstract.
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