Impact of public health initiatives on acute coronary syndrome fatality rates in Portugal

Introduction and Objective: Every year cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes 3.9 million deaths in Europe. Portugal has implemented a set of public health policies to tackle CVD mortality: a smoking ban in 2008, a salt reduction regulation in 2010 and the coronary fast-track system (FTS) for acute cor...

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Main Authors: Daisy Abreu, Paulo Sousa, Carlos Matias-Dias, Fausto Pinto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0870255119304974