[Comparative analysis of the trends of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases in rural and urban monitored population of Jiangsu province].
This study was done on acute myocardial infarction (AMI), coronary sudden death(CSD) and stroke in 424,318 population in Hai Men county and Nanjing city by registration according to WHO "Monica Project" from 1983 to 1987. The results showed that the age-adjusted average annual incidence of coronary events and stroke were 18.6/100,000 and 103.1/100,000, respectively, in a resident population aged 25-74 for 135,429 year-persons in Nanjing. They were significantly higher than 8.4/100,000 and 61.6/100,000 in a group of peasants for 1,040,127 year-persons in Hai Men county of Jiangsu province (u = 2.1, 4.38, P less than 0.05). The age-adjusted average annual mortality of AMI was also higher in Nanjing (4.7 vs. 0.3/100,000; u = 4.6, P less than 0.01) than in Hai Men. Following the effectiveness of hypertensive community control in the monitored population in Nanjing from 1985 to 1987, the mortality of AMI, CSD and stroke decreased significantly and the annual incidence of stroke was also tended to lower. Both the annual incidence of coronary and stroke events and the fatality of stroke at acute stage were still unchanged from 1983 to 1987 owing to the hypertensive community control being delayed in rural population in Hai Men.
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First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical College.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D012424:Rural Population; D014505:Urban Population