Table 1.
Trend in age-adjusted mortality from coronary heart disease (/100 000) between 1980–83 and 2004–08 in men (A) and women (B)
|
(A) Men
| ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980–83 | 1984–87 | 1988–91 | 1992–95 | 1996–99 | 2000–03 | 2004–07 | % change a | |
| UK | 460.3 | 430.5 | 364.7 | 307.4 | 245.3 | 189.7 | 143.7 | −68.8 |
| Australia | 389.3 | 326.9 | 260.1 | 202.7 | 160.3 | 119.5 | 89.5 | −77.0 |
| Sweden | 381.4 | 336.9 | 270.0 | 222.7 | 174.4 | 134.8 | 111.4 | −70.8 |
| USA | 367.0 | 303.3 | 253.1 | 220.8 | 197.5 | 183.7 | 150.7 | −58.9 |
| Canada | 358.2 | 301.7 | 242.2 | 195.9 | 164.9 | 134.8 | 114.6 | −68.0 |
| Spain | 137.4 | 134.7 | 122.6 | 116.5 | 112.2 | 96.1 | 80.9 | −41.4 |
| France | 132.5 | 125.7 | 100.0 | 87.9 | 78.8 | 68.8 | 55.5 | −58.1 |
| Japan | 62.4 | 52.0 | 44.4 | 45.0 | 51.8 | 48.8 | 45.8 | −26.7 |
|
(B) Women
| ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980–83 | 1984–87 | 1988–91 | 1992–95 | 1996–99 | 2000–03 | 2004–07 | % change a | |
| UK | 154.4 | 150.9 | 132.5 | 111.5 | 88.0 | 65.6 | 46.6 | −69.8 |
| Australia | 140.1 | 121.7 | 96.4 | 74.0 | 55.6 | 40.3 | 26.5 | −81.1 |
| Sweden | 110.2 | 94.6 | 80.1 | 67.9 | 55.1 | 45.9 | 35.0 | −68.3 |
| USA | 134.7 | 117.1 | 99.1 | 88.0 | 80.9 | 75.5 | 60.6 | −55.0 |
| Canada | 120.7 | 101.5 | 82.1 | 67.0 | 55.8 | 44.6 | 37.5 | −68.9 |
| Spain | 39.2 | 36.6 | 33.7 | 31.5 | 28.9 | 24.3 | 19.9 | −49.3 |
| France | 36.9 | 34.1 | 24.9 | 21.6 | 18.5 | 15.5 | 12.0 | −67.7 |
| Japan | 27.3 | 21.6 | 17.4 | 16.6 | 17.6 | 15.2 | 13.5 | −50.7 |
a % change was calculated as the difference between CHD mortality in 1980–83 and 2004–07 divided by CHD mortality in 1980–83. We first calculated age-adjusted CHD mortality in each year from 1980 through 2007. Then we averaged the mortality in 4-year periods, e.g. 1980–83, 1984–87 and so forth. The WHO Statistical Information System did not provide data in 2005 in Australia nor in 2006 and 2007 in Canada; thus we averaged the data in 2004, 2006 and 2007 for Australia and 2004 and 2005 for Canada for CHD mortality in 2004–07 in each country.