Coronary Heart Disease

Mortality

Information on coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality is drawn from the database of death registrations maintained by the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS).

Information on trends in coronary heart disease mortality among the top 15% most deprived communities in Scotland, as measured by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (2006), is available from our Deprivation page.

Key points:

• The age-standardised mortality rate (for under 75s) for CHD continues to fall, from 124.6 per 100,000 population in 1995 to 56.0 per 100,000 population in 2008.  If this trend from 1995 continues, the target to reduce the mortality rate by 60% between 1995 and 2010 looks achievable (see Table MC2 ).
• CHD mortality is strongly related to age.  For the year ending 31st December 2008 the age-sex standardised mortality rate for 0-44 year olds was 3.8 per 100,000 population compared to 1,437.0 per 100,000 population for people aged 75 and over (see Table MC1 ).
• The mortality rate from acute myocardial infarction (AMI or heart attack) maintains its steady decline. For the year ended 31st December 2008 the overall AMI death rate was 62.9 per 100,000 population, a reduction of 8.4% from the previous year (see Table MC1 ).

Analysis (click on Table name below for Excel or in CSV column for CSV file)	New/Updated	Excel available	CSV available	Size (Excel/ CSV)	National Statistics
Table MC1 Number of deaths, with crude and age-sex standardised mortality rates, by age, health board of residence and year of death registration, 1999-2008.	24 November 2009		CSV	523 KB/ 753 KB	√
Table MC2 Coronary heart disease mortality in under 75 year olds; progress against targets.	24 November 2009		x	63 KB	√
Table MC4 Number of deaths, with crude and age-sex standardised mortality rates, by age, council area of residence and year of death registration, 1999-2008.	24 November 2009		CSV	1,098 KB/ 3,299 KB	√

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