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Document Details : Title: Changing frequency of cardiovascular diseases and cancer with age Subtitle: The USA, 1999 Author(s): KESTELOOT, Hugo Journal: Acta Cardiologica Volume: 57 Issue: 2 Date: April 2002 Pages: 89-90 DOI: 10.2143/AC.57.2.2005378 Abstract : In a recent tutorialthe evolution of mortality in the United States of America (USA) during the period 1900-1999 has been described. It has also been shown that log mortality rates and age over the age range 35-84 years are closely related by linear equation (r2> 0.99) in both sexes. This could erroneously give the impression that all disease rates increase similarly with age. |
