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CAD Plaque Regression

I had an interesting discussion with my father's doctor today. He recently moved here...

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I guess with single vessel disease an marginal blockages, I would avoid a change as well....

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Why has the rate of heart disease related deaths d...

There have been several discussion concerning the reason heart disease related deaths...

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I hope you get a chance to read it as I would be interested in your opinion.

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Based on the data presented, you have to look at the sum total of the reasons for the...

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Based on the data presented, you have to look at the sum total of the reasons for the decline. Perhaps the number of deaths eliminated in the early 80's were from the advances in cardiovascular surgery. That leveled off and then the effects of statins kicked in to keep the decline intact. Also, you need to look at the numbers year over year, and not just as part of a 110 year graph which will show an exponential smoothing effect.

Here's another representation from the UK.

Note the increase in the reduction due to smokers. This makes sense as the UK has more smokers per 1,000 population than the US.

Below is the findings from the NIH, very similar;

We applied a previously validated statistical model, IMPACT, to data on the use and effectiveness of specific cardiac treatments and on changes in risk factors between 1980 and 2000 among U.S. adults 25 to 84 years old. The difference between the observed and expected number of deaths from coronary heart disease in 2000 was distributed among the treatments and risk factors included in the analyses.
RESULTS:From 1980 through 2000, the age-adjusted death rate for coronary heart disease fell from 542.9 to 266.8 deaths per 100,000 population among men and from 263.3 to 134.4 deaths per 100,000 population among women, resulting in 341,745 fewer deaths from coronary heart disease in 2000. Approximately 47% of this decrease was attributed to treatments, including secondary preventive therapies after myocardial infarction or revascularization (11%), initial treatments for acute myocardial infarction or unstable angina (10%), treatments for heart failure (9%), revascularization for chronic angina (5%), and other therapies (12%). Approximately 44% was attributed to changes in risk factors, including reductions in total cholesterol (24%), systolic blood pressure (20%), smoking prevalence (12%), and physical inactivity (5%), although these reductions were partially offset by increases in the body-mass index and the prevalence of diabetes, which accounted for an increased number of deaths (8% and 10%, respectively).View Thread

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My concerns with this are the concerns that are being considered by the scientific...

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Zocor is a good drug, very safe and very effective. How high is your cholesterol?

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Reply: Decline in Death RATES Coronary Heat Disease

And yes I understand my graphs are in thousands, that's the number that counts, total...

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Maybe this will help; The crude death rate , the total number of deaths per year per...

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Bobby, why does it need to be a percentage, that's my point. The number of deaths is what...

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