Examining trends in cardiovascular disease mortality across Europe: how does the introduction of a new European Standard Population affect the description of the relative burden of cardiovascular disease?

BACKGROUND: Some mortality statistics are misleading when comparing between countries due to varying age distributions in their populations. In order to adjust for these differences, age-standardised mortality rates (ASMRs) are often produced. ASMRs allow for comparisons between countries as if both...

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Autores principales: Tadayon, Shiva, Wickramasinghe, Kremlin, Townsend, Nick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6543561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31146761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-019-0187-7

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