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Despite recent improvements, internationally the death rate from CHD in the UK is relatively high. In countries of Eastern and Central Europe - where death rates have been rising rapidly recently - the death rates are generally higher than in the UK but among developed European countries only Ireland and Finland have a higher rate than the UK.

 

While the death rate from CHD has been falling in the UK it has not been falling as fast as in some other countries.  For example, the death rate for men aged 35 to 74 fell by 42% between 1990 and 2000 in the UK, but it fell by 48% in Australia and 54% in Norway. For women the death rate fell by 44% in the UK but in Australia and New Zealand the rate fell by 51% and 48% respectively.

 

Over the same period, the death rates from CHD in countries of Eastern and Central Europe (most notably countries of the former USSR) have experienced substantial increases. In the Ukraine, for example, between 1990 and 2000 death rates rose by over 60% in both men and women.
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* Age-standardised death rates per 100,000 population from CHD, men, 1968 to 2002, selected countries, the World (Table)
Source: World Health Organization (2004).		  
Microsoft Excel Sheet - Age-standardised death rates per 100,000 population from CHD, men, 1968 to 2002, selected countries, the World (Table)
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* Age-standardised death rates per 100,000 population from CHD, women, 1968 to 2002, selected countries, the World (Table)
Source: World Health Organization (2004).		  
Microsoft Excel Sheet - Age-standardised death rates per 100,000 population from CHD, women, 1968 to 2002, selected countries, the World (Table)
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* Death rates from CHD, men and women aged 35 to 74, 2000, selected countries (Figure)
Source: World Health Organization (2004).		  
Microsoft Excel Sheet - Death rates from CHD, men and women aged 35 to 74, 2000, selected countries (Figure)
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* Changes in death rates from CHD, men and women aged 35 to 74, between 1990 and 2000, selected countries (Figure)
Source: World Health Organization (2004).		  
Microsoft Excel Sheet - Changes in death rates from CHD, men and women aged 35 to 74, between 1990 and 2000, selected countries (Figure)
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* CHD 2004: Mortality chapter
Chapter 1 of the BHF Coronary Heart disease statistics. Published June 2004.		  
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* WHO Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke
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