RT Book, Section
A1 Greenberg, Raymond S.
A1 Lackland, Daniel T.
A2 Greenberg, Raymond S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1108590422
T1 Case-Control Studies
T2 Medical Epidemiology: Population Health and Effective Health Care, 5e
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-182272-5
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1108590422
RD 2024/04/19
AB In  1986,  Barker  and  Osmond  published  a  study  that  examined  patterns  of  death  related  to  coronary  heart  disease  in  England  and  Wales  between  1968  and  1978.  These  investigators  found  that  the  death  rates  in  the  northern  industrial  towns  were  about  20%  above  the  national  average.  In  contrast,  the  more  affluent  areas  in  the  rural  south  and  east  had  heart  disease  death  rates  that  were  20%  below  the  national  average.  The  pattern  of  death  rates  from  coronary  heart  disease  among  adults  paralleled  that  for  infant  mortality  a  half  century  earlier.  One  in  10  newborns  died  in  the  first  year  of  life  in  the  industrial  north  compared  with  one  in  20  in  the  rural  south  and  east.