1st Edition
The Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic in the Twentieth Century Emergence and Decline in Advanced Countries
This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths than any other disease. The book examines and compares trends in coronary heart disease mortality rates for individual countries. The most detailed analyses are for the United States, where mortality rates are examined for race, sex, and age groups and for geographic regions. Popular explanations for the rise and fall of coronary heart disease mortality rates are examined.
Pandemics as Historical Events
Pandemics of Infectious and Chronic Diseases
Criteria for Pandemics
Overview of the Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic in the United States and Methods of Analysis
Overview of the Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic
Characteristics of and Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease
Coronary Heart Disease and Disease Classification Systems
Methods of Analysis
The Emergence of the Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic in the United States
Increases in Coronary Heart Disease Mortality Rates
The Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic in the United States from 1940 to 1967
The Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic in 1940
The Pandemic from 1950 to 1967
Coronary Heart Disease and Socioeconomic Position
Explanations for the Emergence of the Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic
State Differences in Coronary Heart Disease Mortality Rates in the United States in 1950 and 1960
States with the Highest and Lowest Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease Mortality Rates in 1950 and 1960
The Emergence of the Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic in Canada and England and Wales
Coronary Heart Disease Mortality Rates in Canada
Coronary Heart Disease Mortality Rates in England and Wales
The Peak and Decline of the Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic in the United States, 1970 to 2010
The Peak Years of the Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic
The Decline of the Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic
Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality Rates among the Very Old in the Twenty-First Century
Explanations for the Decrease in Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality Rates in the United States from 1970 to 2010
Decreases in State Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality Rates, 1970-1990
Decline of the Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic in the States
The Peak and Decline of the Pandemic in Canada, England and Wales, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand
The Peak and Decline of the Pandemic in Canada
The Peak and Decline of the Pandemic in England and Wales
The Peak and Decline of the Pandemic in Western Europe
The Peak and Decline of the Pandemic in Australia and New Zealand
Coronary Heart Disease after the Pandemic
The Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic in the Twentieth Century
The Decline of the Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic
Coronary Heart Disease after the Pandemic: A Disease of the Elderly
Failure of the Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic to Spread to Central and South America
Ischemic Heart Disease Risk Factors in Healthy Persons in the Twenty-First Century
Prevention of Ischemic Heart Disease in the Twenty-First Century
Biography
William G. Rothstein , PhD., is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
