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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Cardiol. 2015 Jun 16;12(9):508–530. doi: 10.1038/nrcardio.2015.82

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Trends in age-standardised death rates from cardiovascular diseases for adults aged 30 years and older, by region and sex between 2000 and 2012. Death rates are age-standardized to the WHO standard population. Source: World Health Organization (WHO) Global Health Estimates.1

Note: WHO estimates mortality trends using on available data from vital statistics, from sample registration of deaths, and from representative verbal autopsy surveys.310 These data are used together with demographic and epidemiological models, to reconstruct trends.310 Trends are not shown for sub-Saharan Africa and for East, South, and Southeast Asia and the Pacific (with the exception of Japan, Singapore, and South Korea which are included in the high-income group) because mortality data from these regions are very limited, especially for estimating time trends. As described in the text, studies from selected countries and communities in these regions show a modest decline in total CVD mortality and in mortality from stroke and hypertensive disease.