Deaths from ischaemic heart disease and infant mortality in England and Wales. Issue 3 (September 1979)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Williams, D R; Roberts, S J; Davies, T W
• Is Part Of: Journal of epidemiology and community health. Volume 33:Issue 3(1979)
• Page Start: 199
• Page End: 202
• Publication Date: 1979-09
• Subjects: Public health -- Periodicals; Epidemiology -- Periodicals; 614.4
• DOI: 10.1136/jech.33.3.199
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0143-005X

Abstract

Abstract : Death rates from ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in English and Welsh counties are correlated, in both men and women, with the infant mortality rates of those counties when the individuals whose deaths are considered were young, thus confirming previous findings in Norway. In England and Wales, however, there is an equally good correlation between deaths from IHD and infant mortality patterns up to and including that for the same time period as the IHD deaths. The British data provide no grounds for concluding from these relationships that living conditions during early life per se bear a causal relationship to deaths from IHD.