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Appendix 2. Estimated β coefficients from multiple regression analyses for the relationship between changes in population mean risk factors and changes in coronary heart disease mortality (men under 65 only)

From: Impact of Smoking Reduction on Coronary Heart Disease Mortality Trends During 1981–2000 in England and Wales

 

Estimated β Coefficients

Study

Smoking

Cholesterol

Blood Pressure

Our 'best' estimates

0.51

2.00

1.67

MONICA, 2000 [27]

0.73

1.31

0.53

Vartiainen et al. 1994 [28]

0.70

2.00

1.67

Sigfusson 1991 [29]

0.51

2.22

1.06

Dobson et al. 1996 [30]

0.40

1.15

1.26

Collins/MacMahon, 1990 [25;31]

-

-

2.08

Seven Countries [32;33]

-

2.10

2.09

Law et al. 1994 [34]

-

2.46

-

  1. Vartiainen et al [28] and Sigfusson et al [29] are individual populations (Finland and Iceland respectively) from the MONICA study. Dobson et al 1996 [30] estimates are based on a subset of data from the MONICA study. Hence these estimates are not independent of each other. The major outcome in the MONICA 2000 [27] study was coronary event rate, as opposed to CHD mortality from the other MONICA studies.
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