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Trends in 5-Year Mortality of Hospital Survivors of Myocardial Infarctions (MONICA)
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Theme
Organizations
Description of project
Years
Number of records or individuals for the cohort
Main investigator(s)
Project coordination
Project numbers
Publications
Theme
Heart – Monitoring Cardiovascular Disease – MONICA
Organization(s)
Dalhousie University , Division of Cardiology
Description of project
The primary objective of this study is to examine whether the five-year survival of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI ) increased during the study period. The overall purpose was to make informed decisions about which acute-care measures were associated with a change in mortality. This could lead to a more targeted use of treatments and medicine or a re-assessment of their use in general to improve the health outcomes of AMI patients. The World Health Organization monitoring trends and determinants of cardiovascular disease (MONICA) Project is a study that monitors deaths due to coronary heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, coronary care, and risk factors in men and women aged 35 to 64 in defined communities.
Years
Death years: 1984 – 1998
Number of records or individuals for the cohort
3,900 individuals (both sexes) - 2,700 men; 1,200 women
Main investigator(s)
Dr. Iqbal R. Bata and Dr. Hermann Wolf, Dalhousie University, Division of Cardiology
Project coordination
Dores Zuccarini, Occupational and Environmental Health Research Section, Health Statistics Division, Statistics Canada
Project number(s)
2001-015
Publications
Tunstall-Pedoe H, Kuulasmaa K, Amouyel P, Arveiler D, Rajakangas AM, Pajak A. Myocardial infarction and coronary deaths in the World Health Organization MONICA Project. Registration procedures, event rates, and case-fatality rates in 38 populations from 21 countries and four continents. Circulation 1994; 90(1): 583-612.
Bata IR, Eastwood BJ, Gregor RD , Guernsey JR, Klassen GA, MacKenzie BR, Wolf HK. Decreasing mortality from acute myocardial infarctions effect of attack rates and cases severity. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 1997; 50(7): 787-791.
Bata IR, Gregor RD, Eastwood BJ, Wolf HK. Trends in the incidence of acute myocardial infarction between 1984 and 1993 - The Halifax County MONICA Project. Canadian Journal of Cardiology 2000; 16(5): 589-595.
