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Das weltweite WHO-MONICA-Projekt: Ergebnisse und Ausblick

After World War II coronary heart disease (CHD) assumed epidemic proportions in western countries. In many countries the peak of the epidemic occurred in 1968. In 1978 the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH organized the Bethesda conference on the decline in CHD mortality. The aim of the conference was to find out whether measures of prevention or improvements in acute coronary care were responsible for the decline in age-specific CHD mortality rates. Because of lack of appropriate data in 1978 these questions remained unanswered. To answer these questions the WHO MONICA (Monitoring trends and determinants in cardiovascular disease) project was organized as a monitoring system to assess trends and determinants of cardiovascular mortality, incidence and case …

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