Blood pressure and the burden of coronary heart disease
Lawes CMM., Vander Hoorn S., Law MR., Elliott P., MacMahon S., Rodgers A.
© Oxford University Press, 2014. This chapter presents estimates of blood pressure distributions by age, sex, and world region to estimate the burden of coronary heart disease (CHD) attributable to raised blood pressure worldwide in the year 2000. It summarizes work produced for the WHO Global Burden of Disease 2000 study and the World Health Report 2002, which included estimates of the burden of disease attributable to a variety of risk factors including blood pressure.