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Life-Years Gained From Modern Cardiological Treatments and Population Risk Factor Changes in England and Wales, 1981–2000

Belgin Ünal, PhD, Julia A. Critchley, PhD, Dogan Fidan, MSc and Simon Capewell, MD

At the time of the study, B. Ünal, J. A. Critchley, and S. Capewell were with the Department of Public Health, University of Liverpool, UK. D. Fidan is with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.



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  		FIGURE 1—— Life-years gained from coronary heart disease treatments and changes in population risk factors, by age and sex in England and Wales, 1981–2000.

Changes in risk factors gained 4 665 life-years in men, 574 in women; treatments gained 672 life-years in men, 219 in women.

 


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  		FIGURE 2—— Proportional contributions of specific treatments and risk-factor changes to the decline in coronary heart disease in England and Wales, 1981–2000.

 




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