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Trends in coronary heart disease mortality: age groups and populations
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AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2014) Trends in coronary heart disease mortality: age groups and populations, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 09 November 2024.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2014). Trends in coronary heart disease mortality: age groups and populations. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Trends in coronary heart disease mortality: age groups and populations. AIHW, 2014.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Trends in coronary heart disease mortality: age groups and populations. Canberra: AIHW; 2014.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2014, Trends in coronary heart disease mortality: age groups and populations, AIHW, Canberra.
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Coronary heart disease is Australia’s leading cause of death, and although death rates have fallen substantially over recent decades, declines among some age groups appear to have slowed. Trends in coronary heart disease mortality: age groups and populations examines how the decline has varied between young adults, middle-aged and older persons, and among different population groups, including by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status, geographic location and socioeconomic status.
- ISSN: 1323-9236
- ISBN: 978-1-74249-558-3
- Cat. no: CVD 67
- Pages: 75
Findings from this report:
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Coronary heart disease (CHD) death rates declined between 1979 and 2010, but annual rate of decline differs by age
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There has been a recent slowing in the average annual decline of death rates in those aged between 25 and 69 years
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For men and women 70 years and over, who are at most risk of CHD, mortality declines have continued to improve
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Negative trends in key risk factors are likely to underlie the slowing in the decline in deaths among younger people