Which cardiovascular risk factors are associated with cardiovascular disease and predict future events in advanced age in New Zealand?
Whalley, Gillian; Doughty, Robert N.; Robinson, Elizabeth; O Teh, Ruth; Kerse, N.
Date
2012Citation:
Teh, R. O., Kerse, N. M., Robinson, E. M., Doughty, R. N., & Whalley, G. A. (2012). Which cardiovascular risk factors are associated with cardiovascular disease and predict future events in advanced age in New Zealand?. Australasian Journal on Ageing.Permanent link to Research Bank record:
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/2102Abstract
One potential impact of population ageing is increased health-care costs particularly devoted to cardiovascular disease (CVD). In New Zealand, between 2001 and 2003, 53% of deaths of those aged 85 years and older (also known as advanced age) were attributable to CVD. Māori, indigenou to New Zealand, record a higher mortality from circulatory diseases at a younger age;; the average age of first stroke for Ma¯ ori and non-Māori New Zealanders was 61
and 76 years old, respectively.