1. Disparities in mortality rates from aortic aneurysm and dissection by country-level income status and sexCentral MessagePerspective
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Makoto Hibino, MD, MPH, PhD, Nitish K. Dhingra, MD, Raj Verma, Christoph A. Nienaber, MD, Bobby Yanagawa, MD, PhD, and Subodh Verma, MD, PhD
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aortic disease ,mortality trends ,income levels ,sex difference ,Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system ,RC666-701 ,Surgery ,RD1-811 - Abstract
Objective: To investigate the impact of national income level and sex on mortality trends from aortic aneurysm and dissection in addition to all aortic disease as a whole. Methods: Using data from the World Health Organization mortality database, we conducted an analysis of mortality trends from aortic disease between 2000 and 2019, Countries were categorized into middle-income and high-income countries (MICs and HICs) on the basis of income level. Age-standardized and sex-specific age-standardized mortality rates per 100,000 persons, along with male-to-female mortality ratios, were calculated. Trends over the study period were analyzed using joinpoint regression. Results: Our analysis comprised 29 MICs and 46 HICs, with an average population of 595 million and 1042 million during the observation period. During the observation period, age-standardized mortality rates from aortic disease decreased to 2.21 (2.17-2.25) and 2.28 (2.26-2.30) in MICs and HICs, respectively (average annual percentage change of −0.5% in MICs and −1.8% in HICs, P
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- 2024
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