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Recent trends in the mortality and morbidity of cardiovascular diseases
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Cardiovascular disease trends show rising ischemic heart disease deaths and prevalence. However, deaths from cerebrovascular diseases remained stable, while hypertensive and pulmonary heart disease deaths declined.
Area of Science:
- Cardiovascular epidemiology
- Public health trends
- Morbidity and mortality studies
Background:
- Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) represent a significant global health burden.
- Understanding long-term trends in CVD morbidity and mortality is crucial for public health planning.
- Recent decades have seen shifts in the patterns of various cardiovascular conditions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze trends in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality over recent decades.
- To investigate changes in specific cardiovascular diseases: ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and hypertensive, pulmonary, and symptomatic heart diseases.
- To examine the demographic characteristics of individuals affected by cardiovascular diseases.
Main Methods:
- Retrospective analysis of mortality data using standardized death rates.
- Assessment of disease prevalence using hospital admission data.
- Analysis of sex, age, and ethnic characteristics of patient populations and mortality data.
Main Results:
- Standardized death rates for ischemic heart disease have increased.
- Standardized death rates for cerebrovascular disease remained stable.
- Standardized death rates for hypertensive, pulmonary, and symptomatic heart diseases have declined.
- Hospital admission data suggest increased prevalence for ischemic, hypertensive, pulmonary, and symptomatic heart diseases.
- Demographic characteristics of affected populations were analyzed and discussed.
Conclusions:
- The trends in cardiovascular disease mortality and morbidity are complex and disease-specific.
- Ischemic heart disease shows an upward trend in mortality and prevalence.
- Declining mortality for some heart conditions contrasts with rising prevalence, indicating a need for continued monitoring and intervention.
Abstract:
The trend of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality during the recent decades is traced. The standardized death rate for ischaemic heart disease had increased, for cerebrovascular disease it has remained stable and for hypertensive, pulmonary and symptomatic heart diseases it has declined. If the number of hospital admission is taken to be indicative of the prevalence of the disease in the community, then the prevalence rates of not only ischaemic heart disease but also hypertensive, pulmonary and symptomatic heart diseases have risen. The sex, age and ethnic characteristics of deaths and patients with different cardiovascular diseases are also presented and discussed.