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Epidemics
Recent findings in epidemics described by researchers from University of Sydney
June 2nd, 2009
According to recent research from Camperdown, Australia, "Coronary heart disease (CHD) was an important epidemic in many developed countries in the 20th century and there is concern because the epidemic has affected Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia and is starting to affect developing countries. The epidemic curves of CHD mortality for 55 countries, which had reliable data and met other selection criteria, were examined using age-standardised death rates 35-74 years from the World Health Organization." "Annual male mortality rates for individual countries from 1950 to 2003 were plotted and a table and a graph used to classify countries by magnitude, pattern and...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-06-02)
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