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National trends in rates of death and hospital admissions related to acute myocardial infarction, heart failure and stroke, 1994–2004

Jack V. Tu, MD PhD, Lorelei Nardi, MSc, Jiming Fang, PhD, Juan Liu, MD, Laila Khalid, MD, Helen Johansen, PhD for the Canadian Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Team

From the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (Tu, Nardi, Fang, Liu, Khalid), Toronto, Ont.; the Division of Cardiology, Schulich Heart Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto (Tu), Toronto, Ont.; and the Health Analysis Division, Statistics Canada (Johansen), Ottawa, Ont.


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  		Table 1: Trends in the rates of death, hospital admissions and in-hospital case fatality associated with acute myocardial infarction, heart failure and stroke in Canada, 1994–2004

 

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  		Figure 1: Age- and sex-standardized rates of death from acute myocardial infarction, heart failure and stroke per 100 000 population aged 20 and over in Canada, 1994–2004. Rates are standardized to the Canadian 1991 census population.

 

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  		Table 2: Age- and sex-specific rates of death by cardiovascular disease per 100 000 population aged 20 and over in Canada, 1994–2004

 

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  		Figure 2: Age- and sex-standardized rates of hospital admissions because of acute myocardial infarction, heart failure and stroke per 100 000 population aged 20 and over in Canada, 1994–2004. Rates are standardized to the Canadian 1991 census population.

 

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  		Table 3: Age- and sex-specific rates of hospital admissions by cardiovascular disease per 100 000 population aged 20 and over in Canada, 1994–2004

 

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  		Figure 3: Age- and sex-adjusted in-hospital case-fatality rates among patients with acute myocardial infarction, heart failure and stroke in Canada, 1994–2004. Rates are standardized to the Canadian 1991 census population.