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Geographic variation in vascular mortality in eurasia: Relationship between mortality variables and risk factors

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This study was based on a sample of 68 populations from 42 countries of Eurasia. Most of the data were from the MONICA Project, while additional information was from the abundant literature. Mortality rates (from cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and ischaemic heart diseases, and death rate from all causes) and related to them potential risk factors (systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total serum cholesterol and body mass index) were described for men and women, separately for 5 age cohorts, ranging between 25 and 64 years. The results showed that, in contrast to the studies carried out on theintrapopulational level, in our work risk factors did not demonstrate any strong association with mortality rate variables. Moreover, it was found that the vascular mortality on theinterpopulational level explains between 57% and 71% in total mortality and could serve as a quite fair indicator of the populational well-being in general. Although mortality rate from vascular diseases in women was much lower than in man of equal ages, geographic variation of the above mentioned death rates has showed a very similar pattern in the two sexes: the death rate is high in women when it is high in men.

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Peter, I., Livshits, G. & Otremski, I. Geographic variation in vascular mortality in eurasia: Relationship between mortality variables and risk factors. Int. J. Anthropol. 10, 213–228 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02447880

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