Epidemic of coronary heart disease and its treatment in Australia

Full publication (418K PDF)

• Preliminary material (157K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Summary
• Sections
  • Introduction (42K PDF)
    • Background
    • What is coronary heart disease?
    • Risk factors and prevention
    • Medical treatment and cardiac procedures
    • Greater risk among the elderly
    • Purpose and structure of this report
  • Methods (118K PDF)
    • Overview
    • Incidence of acute coronary events
    • Hospital admissions
    • Mortality
    • Prevalence of heart disease
    • Risk factor prevalence
    • Drug treatment
    • Cardiac procedures
    • Expenditure
    • Classifications
  • Incidence, prevalence and mortality of coronary heart disease (233K PDF)
    • Introduction
    • Incidence
    • Mortality
    • Case-fatality
    • Prevalence
    • Discussion
  • Risk factors and drug treatment for coronary heart disease (144K PDF)
    • Introduction
    • Risk factors for coronary heart disease
    • Drug treatment
    • Discussion
  • Admissions and in-hospital treatment for acute myocardial infarction (272K PDF)
    • Introduction
    • Hospital admissions for acute myocardial infarction
    • Acute cardiac procedures
    • Outcomes of acute care interventions
    • Discussion
  • Expenditure (116K PDF)
    • Introduction
    • Aggregate expenditure on coronary heart disease
    • Length of stay in hospital for acute myocardial infarction
    • Average expenditure for hospital treatment
    • Conclusion
• End matter (145K PDF)
  • Appendix
  • References

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