Other ischaemic heart disease

These are the complications of obesity, such as ischaemic heart disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension and gall bladder disease.

Many registered diseases, taken together, increase the level of lost work days related to work conditions  respiratory diseases, hypertension and ischaemic diseases of the heart and locomotor system diseases.

Moreover, they do not appear among the 10 principal causes of death among women of productive age (15 64) the 5 principal causes of death among women in this group are diabetes mellitus, ischaemic diseases of the heart, malignant tumours, cerebro vascular diseases and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

That cause of death patterns vary between low mortality Asian countries, including Japan, and the West is well known. Mortality from cerebrovascular diseases, particularly from haemorrhagic stroke, is, for example, far more common in Asian countries than in the West, while ischaemic heart disease plays a more important role in cardiovascular disease mortality in Western than in Asian countries.

In Mexico the first 10 causes of death among women in 2001 were diabetes mellitus, ischaemic diseases of the heart, cerebro vascular disease, certain affections occurring during the perinatal period, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cirrhosis and other chronic diseases of the liver, acute diseases of the lower respiratory tract, diseases arising from high blood pressure, nephritis, nephrosis and malignant tumours of the cervix.

Ischaemic heart disease was the leading cause of cardiovascular disease mortality, followed by cerebrovascular disease, in the world as a whole. Malignant neoplasms, in turn, were responsible for approximately 6 million deaths worldwide in 1990, of which 60 per cent were estimated to have occurred in developing countries. Among women, breast cancer was the most common form of cancer, followed by stomach cancer.