Dr Hassan Radmehr, chief of the cardiovascular surgery department of Imam Hospital in Tehran, announced that 50,000 people die each year because of heart failure in Iran.
Source: www.pezeshkan.ir, December,28 2006
My comment: It shows that the health transition (from infectious disease to western disease pattern plus population aging) has already happend. You can find tabulate data on burden of disease in Iran from the book published by the Ministry of Health titled "Simaye Marg dar 18 Ostan) by Dr. Naghavi and his colleagues.
Code:5N
No comments:
Post a Comment