The effect of risk factor reductions between 1981 and 1990 on coronary heart disease incidence, prevalence, mortality and cost
Lee Goldman, MD, MPH, FACC*,
Kathryn A. Phillips, PhD* ,
Pamela Coxson, PhD*,
Paula A. Goldman, MPH ,
Lawrence Williams, MS ,
M. G. Myriam Hunink, MD, PhD|| and
Milton C. Weinstein, PhD
* Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA
School of Pharmacy, and Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
|| Program for the Assessment of Radiological Technology, Department of Radiology and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Figure 1 Effects of risk factor trends on coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence rates between 1981 and 1990. F = female; M = male.
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