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Trends in cardiovascular diseases and cancer mortality in 45 countries from fiv...
Araujo, F; Gouvinhas, C; Fontes, F; La Vecchia, C; Azevedo, A; Lunet, NBackground: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and cancer are worldwide main causes of death with mortality trends varying across countries with different levels of economic development. Design and methods: We analysed trends in CVD and cancer mortality for 37 European countries, five high-income non-European countries and four leading emerging economies (BRICS) using data from the World Health Organization database...
Worldwide patterns of ischemic heart disease mortality from 1980 to 2010
Gouvinhas, C; Severo, M; Azevedo, A; Lunet, NBackground: The trends in the IHD mortality rates vary widely across countries, reflecting the heterogeneity in the variation of the exposure to the main risk factors and in the access to different management strategies among settings. We aimed to identify model-based patterns in the time trends in IHD mortality in 50 countries from the five continents, between 1980 and 2010. Methods and results: Mixed models w...