… Background— Coronary heart disease mortality rates have … Methods and Results— The
IMPACT mortality model was used to … Between 1981 and 2000, coronary heart disease mortality …

… The decline in coronary heart disease mortality in the US population has been attributed to …
factors for heart disease and improvement in medical treatment of patients with heart disease. …

… In the United States, especially from coronary heart disease and stroke. The decline has …
Possible causes of the decline In coronary heart disease mortality Include the development of …

… trends in coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality by sex and age for the past 30 years, from
1979 to 2011. The analysis reveals significant heterogeneity in CHD mortality rates over time …

… heart disease mortality declined by 20.7% in the United States between 1968 and 1976.
Declines … The decline cannot be explained by shifts in assignment of cause of death on death …

… coronary heart disease morbidity, and about the reasons for the ongoing decline of coronary
heart disease mortality can only be drawn very cautiously using mortality registry data. …

Objective. —To examine whether secular trends in risk factor levels and improvements in
treatment can account for the observed decline in coronary heart disease mortality in the …

… a period of declining CHD mortality in 1968 [2-61. This paper examines the decline in CHD
mortality over the last 8 yr in the context of cardiovascular and general mortality trends since …

… , coronary heart disease mortality has declined more … the decline could be attributed to
improved treatments and risk factor reductions. The authors used the cell-based IMPACT mortality …

… From 1988 to 2005, the age-adjusted coronary heart disease mortality rates fell by almost
40%, resulting in 8530 fewer coronary heart disease deaths in 2005. Approximately 47% of the …