Impact of falling cardiovascular disease death rates: deaths delayed and years of life extended

Impact of falling cardiovascular disease death rates: deaths delayed and years of life extended

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AIHW bulletin no. 70

Death rates from CVD and CHD have declined dramatically in Australia since their peak in the mid 1960s. This report quantifies the number of lives saved since the peak and looks briefly at the age and sex population groups where the impact was likely to have been highest.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 7 April 2009; ISSN 1446-9820; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 908 9; AIHW cat. no. AUS 113; 24pp.; $10.00


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  • Highlights (HTML)
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Measures of the impact
  • Estimated impact of the decline in CVD and CHD death rates
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix: Methodology and data sources
  • References
  • Acknowledgments