National trends in Finland over 40 years demonstrated a reduction in the probability of cardiovascular death for 30-year-old men from 30% to 7%, and for 30-year-old women from 13% to 2%.
Observational
How have cardiovascular disease incidence, mortality rates, and life expectancy changed in Finland over the last 40 years?
Finland has experienced a dramatic decline in cardiovascular mortality over the past 40 years, leading to significant increases in life expectancy, though rates remain higher than in Mediterranean countries.
During the last 40 years, Finland has experienced a remarkable decline in coronary heart disease and stroke mortality. The latest coronary heart disease mortality figures in the working-age population are <20% of the top figures in the early 1970s. Equal declines can be seen in men and in women, and the improvement extends to elderly populations as well. However, due to the very high historic levels, Finland still continues to have clearly higher cardiovascular mortality than, for example, the Mediterranean countries. Parallel to the decline in cardiovascular mortality, the life expectancy of Finns has increased by 11.6 years in men and by 9.2 years in women. The probability for a 30-year-old man to die of cardiovascular disease has dropped from about 30% in 1970 to 7% in 2013, and for a 30-year-old woman, the corresponding probability has dropped from 13% to about 2%.
Salomaa et al. (Sat,) conducted a observational in Cardiovascular disease. National trends in Finland over 40 years demonstrated a reduction in the probability of cardiovascular death for 30-year-old men from 30% to 7%, and for 30-year-old women from 13% to 2%.