Cardiovascular diseases in Norway
Cardiovascular diseases include, amongst others, heart attack, angina pectoris and stroke. Many people are living with cardiovascular disease in Norway today. Since the late 1980s there has been a strong reduction in cardiovascular deaths in the under 75 year age group.
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High cholesterol levels increase the risk of myocardial infarction and angina pectoris, and also the risk of some other diseases in blood vessels. Eight out of ten men and six out of ten middle-aged women have cholesterol above the recommended value of 5.0 mmol/l per litre, according to health studies.
Read more [21.06.2010]
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There has been a consistent reduction in the number of Norwegians who die of cardiovascular diseases in middle age. The reduction was steep in the 1990s and has continued into the 2000s. There are signs that the reduction in the number of heart attacks has ceased.
Read more [06.04.2009]
New research
People who were already overweight in adolescence (14-19 years old) have an increased mortality rate from a range of chronic diseases as adults; endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, colon cancer and respiratory diseases. There were also many cases of sudden death in this group. This comes from a new study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH).
Read more [20.05.2008]