Original scientific paper

Morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular diseases

Verica Kralj orcid.org/0000-0002-4623-828X ; Croatian National Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivana Brkić Biloš ; Croatian National Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

According to the data provided by World Health Organization, the cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the cause of death of 17.3 million of people at an international level, or 30% of total mortality, whereas they account for 47% of all deaths at the European level. Even in Croatia, they are the major cause of death, ac- counting for 48.3% of total mortality in 2012. They are the cause of death of 54.5% of dead women and 42.1% of dead men. In hospital morbidity, CVDs have held the first or second place in the number of hospitalizations for years, alternating with malignant diseases. Hospitalization rates for CVD rise with age and are higher in men than in women in all age groups. Intense rise in hospital morbidity begins at the age of 40, ten years earlier than the rise in mortality. The period of the last ten years shows a continuing downward trend in mortality caused by CVD, which is more pronounced for cerebrovascular diseases, than for ischemic heart disease and especial- ly for the age from 0 to 64, but they are still the major cause of mortality and morbidity.

Keywords

cardiovascular diseases; mortality; morbidity

Hrčak ID:

112566

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/112566

Publication date:

2.10.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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