Not Just the Demographic Change--The Impact of Trends in Risk Factor Prevalences on the Prediction of Future Cases of Myocardial Infarction.

Not Just the Demographic Change--The Impact of Trends in Risk Factor Prevalences on the Prediction of Future Cases of Myocardial Infarction.

Previous predictions of population morbidity consider demographic changes only. To model future morbidity, however, changes in prevalences of risk factors should be considered. We calculated the number of incident cases of first myocardial infarction (MI) in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2017 con...

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Main Authors: Wolfgang Hoffmann, Jeanette Bahr, Kerstin Weitmann, Robert Herold, Thomas Kohlmann, Neeltje van den Berg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4516359?pdf=render

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