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. 2020 Feb 3;20(1):162.
doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-8297-5.

Coronary heart disease mortality is decreasing in Argentina, and Colombia, but keeps increasing in Mexico: a time trend study

C Arroyo-Quiroz  1   2 , T Barrientos-Gutierrez  3 , M O'Flaherty  4 , M Guzman-Castillo  4 , L Palacio-Mejia  5 , E Osorio-Saldarriaga  6 , A Y Rodriguez-Rodriguez  6
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Coronary heart disease mortality is decreasing in Argentina, and Colombia, but keeps increasing in Mexico: a time trend study

C Arroyo-Quiroz et al. BMC Public Health. .

Abstract

Background: Mortality rates due to coronary heart disease (CHD) have decreased in most countries, but increased in low and middle-income countries. Few studies have analyzed the trends of coronary heart disease mortality in Latin America, specifically the trends in young-adults and the effect of correcting these comparisons for nonspecific causes of death (garbage codes). The objective of this study was to describe and compare standardized, age-specific, and garbage-code corrected mortality trends for coronary heart disease from 1985 to 2015 in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico.

Methods: Deaths from coronary heart disease were grouped by country, year of registration, sex, and 10-year age bands to calculate age-adjusted and age and sex-specific rates for adults aged ≥25. We corrected for garbage-codes using the methodology proposed by the Global Burden of Disease. Finally, we fitted Joinpoint regression models.

Results: In 1985, age-standardized mortality rates per 100,000 population were 136.6 in Argentina, 160.6 in Colombia, and 87.51 in Mexico; by 2015 rates decreased 51% in Argentina and 6.5% in Colombia, yet increased by 61% in Mexico, where an upward trend in mortality was observed in young adults. Garbage-code corrections produced increases in mortality rates, particularly in Argentina with approximately 80 additional deaths per 100,000, 14 in Colombia and 13 in Mexico.

Conclusions: Latin American countries are at different stages of the cardiovascular disease epidemic. Garbage code correction produce large changes in the mortality rates in Argentina, yet smaller in Mexico and Colombia, suggesting garbage code corrections may be needed for specific countries. While coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality is falling in Argentina, modest falls in Colombia and substantial increases in Mexico highlight the need for the region to propose and implement population-wide prevention policies.

Keywords: Coronary disease mortality; Latin America; Statistics and numerical data; Trends.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Figures

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Trends in age-standardized mortality rates per 100,000 by sex for coronary heart disease. Argentina, Colombia, and México. 1985–2015. Star: all; circle: male; cross: female
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Trends in age and sex-specific mortality rates per 100,000 for Coronary Heart Disease, by country. Argentina, Colombia, and México. 1985–2015. Circle: male; cross: female
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Fig. 3
Trends in adjusted age-standardized mortality rates per 100,000 by sex for coronary heart disease corrected by garbage codes. Argentina, Colombia, and México. 1997–2015. Gray: original mortality rates; black: garbage-codes corrected mortality rates. Star: all; circle: male; cross: female
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Fig. 4
Trends in age and sex-specific mortality rates per 100,000 for Coronary Heart Disease corrected by garbage codes, by country. Argentina, Colombia, and México. 1997–2015. Gray: original mortality rates; black: garbage-codes corrected mortality rates. Circle: male; cross: female
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