The influence of calcium and magnesium in drinking water and diet on cardiovascular risk factors in individuals living in hard and soft water areas with differences in cardiovascular mortality

Table 1 Standardised mortality cases per 1000 inhabitants, population and risk ratio (SMR) for inhabitants aged 45–64 in the two municipalities in the west and east part of Sweden 1989–1998.

	West Men	East Men	SMR Men	West Women	East Women	SMR Women
Population	1192	2717		1116	2384
Total mortality/1000 inh	67.95	55.58	1.22	54.66	36.49	1.50
Mortality from cardiovascular disease/1000 inh	31.04	19.87	1.56	10.75	6.29	1.71
Mortality from IHD/1000 inh	20.97	10.31	2.03	5.38	2.10	2.56

All differences are significant p < 0.0001. Data were received from Statistics Sweden. [25]

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