Explaining the decline in coronary heart disease mortality in Turkey between 1995 and 2008
- Capewell, Simon
- Critchley, Julia
- Simsek, HATİCE
- ÜNAL, BELGİN
- DEMİRAL, YÜCEL
- Sozmen, Kaan
- Arik, Hale
- Gerceklioglu, Gul
- Doganay, Sinem
- Aslan, Ozgur
- Bennett, Kathleen
- O'Flaherty, Martin
- Altun, Deniz Utku
Publication date
December 2013
DOIAbstract
Background: Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates have been decreasing in Turkey since the early 1990s. Our study aimed to determine how much of the CHD mortality decrease in Turkey between 1995 and 2008 could be attributed to temporal trends in major risk factors and how much to advances in medical and surgical treatments
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