XXXX and vascular mortality trends in France: 1979-2001.

@entity1 @entity455 @entity64 @entity66 @entity204
BACKGROUND: The therapeutic armamentarium for vascular risk factors in industrialized countries improved over the past decades. We therefore studied vascular mortality trends in France between 1979 and 2001, and explored how these trends are related to @entity64 or nonstroke vascular mortality changes. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We included all @entity204 from @entity455 in the French population from 1979 to 2001. Trends for total, @entity64 and nonstroke vascular mortality were estimated using log-linear Poisson regression models. Gender-specific mortality rates were standardized directly by 5-year groups to the 1990 French population. RESULTS: During the 1979-2001 period, the mean annual percentage change in @entity204 rates varied across age groups (<35, 35-54, 55-64, 65-74, >or=75) between -2.4 to -3.3% in @entity1 and -2.5 to -4.1% in @entity1 . Respectively, 25.7 and 30.9% of @entity204 was attributed to @entity66 in @entity1 and @entity1 . @entity64 mortality and nonstroke vascular mortality rates declined respectively by 60.9 and 34.6% in @entity1 , and 60.4 and 38.9% in @entity1 . CONCLUSION: We observed a dramatic 60% reduction of @entity64 @entity204 in France in the last 20 years. @entity64 @entity204 decreased at about twice the rate as other causes of @entity204 . Improved management of vascular risk factors could partly explain these results.
