title: Morbidity and mortality of myocardial infarction in the MONICA study area Augsburg in 1985.
abstract: In the year 1985, 998 (734 men, 264 women) cases of acute coronary events were registered among the 25-74 year-old residents of the study area (151,489 men and 171,093 women) of whom 583 (403 men, 180 women) died within 28 days (case fatality). Both AMI as a clinical diagnosis and AMI as a cause of death are validated by defined MONICA diagnostic criteria (acute symptoms, enzyme level, ECG, autopsy diagnosis). The AMI-risk (MONICA diagnostic categories 1, 2, 3, 9) in the study area Augsburg is relatively low (incidence: men 302, women 113; attack rate: men 444, women 138; death rate: men 241, women 92; all per 100,000 for each group). The 28-day case fatality is comparatively high (men 54%, women 67%). A comparison of the Augsburg rates with those of three other centers shows that the Augsburg figures are in the lower range.
authors.affiliation: GSF-Medis-Institut, Neuherberg.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Löwel
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Keil
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Koenig
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hörmann
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Bolte
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gostomzyk
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000401:mortality; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality*; D012307:Risk Factors