[Ten-year trends in acute cardiovascular morbidity in an open population]

The paper treats the data concerning the acute cardiovascular pathology occurrence examined during ten years in an open population of one of the districts of Novosibirsk. It is shown that at first there was a tendency towards the incidence increase followed by its stabilization and then by a tendency towards reduction over the last year. It is proved that the district selected for prolonged monitoring is a typical district of the city and that the tendencies in the incidence among its community should be classified as objective. Comparison of the WHO programs: The Register of Acute Myocardial Infarction (1969) and the Monitoring of the Trends in Cardiovascular Diseases and Determining Factors (1983) has shown no substantial differences in the incidence and death rates obtained in accordance with both programs. It is stressed that this enables one to compare the data of both programs applied to different populations.