Health
CHD deaths steady in younger men, rising in younger women
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Dec. 10, 2007
New research shows that progress in fighting heart disease appears to be stalling, at least for younger adults. Death rates from coronary heart disease remain almost unchanged in recent years among younger men and may be increasing in women.
The study is in the Nov. 27 Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Researchers from the University of Liverpool in the U.K. analyzed U.S. statistics for people ages 35 and older. Although the death rate from coronary heart disease declined overall between 1980 and 2002, among men ages 35 to 54 the rate slowed from a 6.2% decline during the 1980s to a 0.5% decline between 2000 and 2002.
For women ages 35 to 54, the death rate fell by 5.4% during the 1980s but then increased an average of 1.5% per year between 2000 and 2002. For even younger women, those ages 35 to 44, the rate of death from coronary disease increased by 1.3% annually between 1997 and 2002.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/12/10/hlbf1210.htm.
