Secular trends of ischaemic heart disease, stroke, and dementia in high-income countries from 1990 to 2017: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.
Negar MorovatdarAbolfazl AvanMahmoud Reza AzarpazhoohMario Di NapoliSaverio StrangesMoira K KapralArash Akhavan RezayatAidin ShariatzadehShahram AbootalebiNaghmeh MokhberJ David SpenceVladimir HachinskiPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2021)
From 1990 to 2017, the age-standardized burden of IHD, stroke, and dementia decreased, more prominently in OECD countries than the world. However, their rising crude numbers mainly due to population growth and ageing require urgent identification of reversible risk and protective factors.