Nina Øyen

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Senter for medisinsk genetikk og molekylærmedisin

Haukeland universitetssykehus

Institutt for samfunnsmedisinske fag

Universitetet i Bergen

Articles by Nina Øyen

Hospital admission rates and case-fatality for cardiovascular diseases in Western Norway, 1992 - 2001

Nina Øyen,
Ottar Nygård,
Jannicke Igland,
Grethe S. Tell,
Jan Erik Nordrehaug,
Lorentz M. Irgens,
John G. Cooper,
Jørund Langørgen,
Stein Emil Vollset

03.01.2008: Since 1970, cardiovascular mortality (box 1) has decreased with more than 50 % in Norway and other Scandinavian countries (1, 2). A combination of several factors may have contributed to fewer patients acquiring disease (prevention) and/orfewer deaths (treatment) (2). Until recently, Norway has been...