Heart 2008;94:1524-1525
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Monitoring trends in acute coronary syndromes: can we use hospital admission registries?
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Mr M Avendano, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands; m.avendanopabon@erasmusmc.nl
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Mortality rates from coronary heart disease (CHD), and from acute myocardial infarction (AMI), in particular, have been declining steadily since the 1970s.1 2 Data from the MONICA study suggest that two-thirds of this decline can be attributed to changes in the incidence of first CHD events.1 Since the end of the MONICA study, CHD incidence has been monitored through national registries based on continuous updating of routinely collected data from hospital records.3 These data, however, are not without limitations. In this issue of Heart, Chan et al4 show that data from total hospital admissions can be misleading (see page 1589). Previous reports based on the same data showed a marked increase in hospital admissions for AMI, signalling a new epidemic of CHD.5 In a thorough reanalysis, Chan et al demonstrate that this is solely due to an increase in AMI readmissions and changes in diagnostic practices, rather than
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