Table 1

Age standardised attack, incidence, recurrence, total mortality, and out of hospital mortality rates (per 100 000) from myocardial infarction events in men, 1985 to 1993

	All events			First myocardial infarction				Recurrent myocardial infarction
Year	Attack rates	Total mortality		Out of hosp mortality	Incidence rates			Total mortality	Out of hosp mortality	Recurrence rates	Total mortality	Out of hosp mortality
1985	258	119	80		211	90	62			47	28	18
1986	240	107	74		199	83	60			41	25	13
1987	225	92	65		180	71	54			45	21	11
1988	234	94	75		198	76	63			36	18	12
1989	224	88	70		191	73	57			33	15	13
1990	246	90	71		203	68	55			43	23	17
1991	245	90	69		205	74	59			40	16	10
1992	203	72	53		172	59	45			31	13	8
1993	206	65	53		162	50	45			44	14	8
Trend	−2.0	−6.2	−4.2		−2.0	−5.6	−3.4			−1.9	−8.2	−7.8
95% CI	−3.8 to −0.1	−8.4 to −4.0	−7.0 to −1.5		−4.1 to −0.1	−8.1 to −3.2	−5.9 to −0.9			−5.9 to 2.2	−12.6 to −3.8	−14.1 to −1.5

hosp, hospital.