Is the Mortality Trend of Ischemic Heart Disease by the GBD2013 Study in China Real?

Author: Xia WAN ¹ ; Gong Huan YANG ¹
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1. Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China.
Publication Type:Journal Article
MeSH: Algorithms; China; epidemiology; Databases, Factual; Global Burden of Disease; statistics & numerical data; Humans; Models, Biological; Myocardial Ischemia; classification; epidemiology; mortality; Population Surveillance; Time Factors
From: Biomedical and Environmental Sciences 2017;30(3):204-209
CountryChina
Language:English
Abstract: To determine the reason for the different mortality trends of ischemic heart disease (IHD) for China between Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2010 and GBD2013, and to improve garbage code (GC) redistribution. All data were obtained from the disease surveillance points system, and two proportions for assigning chronic pulmonary heart disease (PHD) as GC to IHD were from GBD2010 and GBD2013, which were different for years before 2004. By using the GBD2013 approach, the age-standard mortality rate (ASMR) increased by 100.21% in 1991, 44.81% in 1996, and 42.47% in 2000 in comparison with the GBD2010 approach. The different methods of chronic PHD redistribution impacted the trend of IHD mortality, which elevated it in the earlier 1990s by using the GBD2013 approach. Thus, improving the redistribution of GC as a key step in mortality statistics is important.