[The XXXX status of a South German population: results of the Augsburg @entity583 register l985].

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The Augsburg @entity583 Register recorded in 1985, 999 coronary events (734 @entity1 , 265 @entity1 ) occurring in 25-74-year-old residents of the city of Augsburg and the counties of Augsburg and Aichach-Friedberg (study population: 156,489 @entity1 and 171,093 @entity1 ). On average, 444 @entity1 and 138 @entity1 per 100,000 of the population suffered an @entity583 ( @entity583 ) in 1985. The risk of morbidity increased with age in both @entity1 and @entity1 , but gained significance for @entity1 only after their 55th year of life. The 28-day case fatality was 54% for male @entity583 cases and 66% for females; 34% of the @entity583 @entity1 died without ever reaching a hospital. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was attempted by a physician in one-in-three of these out-of-hospital deaths. Although one of two out-of-hospital deaths occurred in the presence of a medical lay @entity1 ; lay CPR was the exception. Broader population education in CPR techniques may thus constitute one method of reducing the number of early @entity583 . The median prehospital time for interviewed hospital @entity1 (66%) was 5 h, and approximately 2 h for @entity1 with systemic thrombolysis (n = 71). The combination of fatal coronary events from the official cause-of-death statistics and the results from the Augsburg register were used to estimate @entity583 morbidity for the whole of the FRG in 1985. This leads to an expected morbidity of 210,000 @entity583 , of which 141,000 @entity583 will be fatal (both sexes).
