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Some 30 years ago, when mortality from coronary artery disease (CAD) in the U.S. was found to be falling, population-based studies such the U.S. ARIC study and the WHO's MONICA project were initiated to study the reasons for the decline. Results confirmed that cardiovascular case fatality, mortality, and event rates had decreased greatly in the developed world by the turn of the millennium. In three new studies, researchers explore CAD mortality, associated factors, and comorbidities of aging populations in three European countries, extending analysis into the current era of cardiovascular treatment.
A study of all 234,331 patients hospitalized with first-time myocardial infarction (MI) in Denmark from 1984 through 2008 shows a 25-year decli…