CHANGING MORTALITY OF CEREBROVASCULAR-DISEASE

  • 1 January 1978
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 47  (185) , 71-88
Abstract
Cerebrovascular disease mortality trends in England and Wales are discussed, concentrating on data relating to years after 1968. Cerebrovascular disease deaths comprise a decreasing proportion of all deaths and of all cardiovascular disease deaths. For ages under 85 the mortality rates generally fell cerebrovascular disease, with females experiencing the greater improvement. Concerning the main diagnostic categories, the rates for cerebral hemorrhage and thrombosis fell, and rose for subarachnoid hemorrhage and the vague rubrics. Possible explanations for these trends are proposed including relationships to other cardiovascular diseases. In particular, the downward trend in cerebral hemorrhage mortality rates if positively correlated at a significant level with that due to hypertensive disease. However, the trends in cerebral thrombosis and ischemic heart disease mortality rates are in opposite directions.sbd.a phenomenon which contradicts the widely-held view that these diseases have a common etiology.

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