CORONARY DISEASE
Death Rate Up Over 10 Years “The Press" Special Service WELLINGTON, Dec. 20. In spite of an all-round decrease in the death-rate from all diseases of the heart, coronary disease has taken an increasing toll during the 10 years 1950 to 1959. This is reported in the Health Department’s medical statistics of New Zealand for 1959. which have just been issued. In this instance the rate is that for Europeans. The increasing toll from coronary disease was common to both sexes and to all age groups. The increase in the death rate was more noticeable among women, particularly those over the age of 65. Here the increase has been 71.4 per cent, since 1950. However, the death rate for men was consistently and considerably higher than that for women. though the female rate showed the greater increase. There has been a rise of 26.6 per cent, in the death rate for males as against 61.8 per cent, for females, the report says.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29702, 21 December 1961, Page 17
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