Background Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality has steadily declined since the early
1970s in the Netherlands. However, in some Western countries the rate of decline in younger …

… About 44% of the decline in coronary heart disease mortality in Ireland can be attributed
to medical treatments, particularly secondary preventative therapies and treatment of heart …

… reported trends in coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality in defined populations over 10
years, and to partition responsibility for these validated mortality trends between changes in …

… in heart disease mortality ended in the 1960s or 1970s in most industrialized countries; death
rates often declined very steeply. Stroke mortality … Lung cancer mortality slopes generally …

… was stimulated by the observation that differences in ischemic heart disease mortality … -cause
mortality.f4 The increasing differences in ischemic heart disease mortality raise questions …

Short-term changes in ambient particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters < 10 micro m (PM10)
have been associated with short-term fluctuations in mortality or morbidity in many …

… that mortality resulting from congenital heart disease (CHD) among infants and young
children has been decreasing. There is little population-based information on CHD mortality …

… heart disease we evaluated were mortality (… heart disease was the primary outcome
measure in our analyses. If a person had been admitted to hospital for coronary heart disease we …

… of baseline age with coronary heart disease mortality in the present study is consistent with
other longterm studies which have reported coronary heart disease mortality (18,19). This …

… Age-adjusted overall ischemic heart disease mortality declined by 20.7% in the United …
heart disease mortality rose relentlessly in the United States. In 1960 arteriosclerotic heart dis…