Table 15. Percentage of beta blockers before onset (BBLOKB).

MONICA Acute Coronary Care Data Book 1981-1995

**Table 15.** Percentage use of beta blockers before onset (BBLOKB). Non-fatal definite MI events (NF1), age 35-64.
The accurate time periods are shown in Table 1.
RUA	Sex	Years	no previous MI¹			previous MI²			previous CHD³
RUA	Sex	Years	N	1	9	N	1	9	N	1	9
AUS-NEWa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	172 398 445	17 16 13	3 2 3	56 116 148	38 31 32	2 1 2	80 169 210	41 38 30	3 1 2
AUS-NEWa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	57 142 138	30 23 25	4 0 3	6 39 37	33 38 30	0 0 5	18 60 66	17 37 30	6 0 5
AUS-PERb	Men	1982-1984 1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	292 964 989 1014	12 18 16 13	3 2 2 2	104 268 353 296	38 39 43 46	7 4 1 1	156 460 559 474	37 33 38 38	4 3 1 1
AUS-PERb	Women	1982-1984 1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	75 163 238 214	31 18 19 20	1 3 3 1	15 69 73 53	53 45 42 51	0 1 1 0	36 110 135 110	53 35 39 41	0 2 2 1
BEL-GCHa	Men	1985-1987 1991-1993	118 109	8 14	8 4	19 38	21 42	5 5	dnc dnc	dnc dnc	dnc dnc
BEL-GCHa	Women	1985-1987 1991-1993	21 29	33 34	14 3	4 4	50 25	0 0	dnc dnc	dnc dnc	dnc dnc
CAN-HALa	Men	1982-1984 1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	78 195 164 195	13 12 14 11	0 5 7 5	48 148 121 129	40 43 35 47	0 5 3 1	85 232 189 189	41 41 32 46	0 5 3 1
CAN-HALa	Women	1982-1984 1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	17 59 47 82	18 27 6 18	0 2 6 2	4 27 29 30	50 63 52 27	0 0 10 3	9 48 44 57	33 58 45 40	0 2 9 2
CHN-BEIa	Men	1982-1984 1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	22 112 124 135	5 1 0 1	9 0 1 0	3 26 14 16	0 12 0 6	0 0 0 6	4 45 44 47	0 7 0 4	25 0 2 2
CHN-BEIa	Women	1982-1984 1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	3 39 40 29	0 3 0 0	0 3 0 0	3 3 2 2	0 0 0 50	33 0 0 0	3 18 11 11	0 0 0 9	33 6 0 0
RUA	Sex	Years	no previous MI¹			previous MI²			previous CHD³
RUA	Sex	Years	N	1	9	N	1	9	N	1	9
CZE-CZEb	Men	1985-1987 1991-1993	157 116	11 11	9 4	62 40	45 40	5 5	85 40	44 40	4 5
CZE-CZEb	Women	1985-1987 1991-1993	29 32	24 22	3 6	5 5	40 40	0 0	11 5	27 40	0 0
DEN-GLOa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	121 285 104	9 7 9	3 1 0	36 93 27	25 16 15	11 5 0	60 143 39	20 16 21	13 4 0
DEN-GLOa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	37 85 25	11 6 12	3 0 0	9 9 4	0 11 25	11 11 0	13 25 7	15 8 29	8 4 0
FIN-FINa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	103 93 92	25 23 18	0 1 1	59 40 30	68 78 70	2 0 0	dnc dnc dnc	dnc dnc dnc	dnc dnc dnc
FIN-FINa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	23 20 15	30 40 27	0 0 0	9 5 3	78 40 33	0 0 0	dnc dnc dnc	dnc dnc dnc	dnc dnc dnc
FRA-LILa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	135 232 331 191	12 14 13 10	1 3 1 1	31 44 58 31	35 32 48 52	0 0 0 0	70 82 114 56	26 32 39 36	0 2 1 0
FRA-LILa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	24 47 51 23	13 17 25 26	0 9 4 0	3 4 9 3	0 50 89 33	33 25 0 0	11 15 23 8	0 40 65 25	9 7 4 0
FRA-STRa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	210 310 631	17 18 15	1 1 0	51 65 102	29 37 51	6 0 2	105 124 188	30 37 45	4 1 2
FRA-STRa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	44 63 117	14 27 21	7 0 0	7 12 12	43 25 25	0 0 0	21 29 25	33 34 24	0 0 0
RUA	Sex	Years	no previous MI¹			previous MI²			previous CHD³
RUA	Sex	Years	N	1	9	N	1	9	N	1	9
FRA-TOUa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	178 192 372	13 8 12	2 1 1	24 37 68	42 35 44	0 3 0	64 68 114	30 34 42	0 1 1
FRA-TOUa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	24 26 43	17 15 19	4 0 2	3 5 10	33 40 30	33 0 0	9 10 17	33 30 24	11 0 6
GER-AUGa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	384 353 316 108	10 11 9 10	6 4 2 3	76 83 82 21	36 40 34 48	4 1 5 5	205 179 114 33	23 28 32 39	6 4 4 3
GER-AUGa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	62 86 71 19	15 12 15 21	13 1 1 0	8 6 12 4	25 50 33 25	0 17 0 25	36 33 29 8	19 12 28 38	8 3 0 13
GER-BREb	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	517 421 316	10 12 10	1 3 1	121 131 81	24 27 41	6 2 1	203 195 112	24 26 32	4 4 2
GER-BREb	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	115 115 92	10 13 15	2 3 1	19 27 10	11 26 10	0 0 10	43 49 22	7 20 18	0 2 5
GER-EGEd	Men	1988-1990 1991-1993	72 122	13 13	1 0	18 18	39 22	6 0	35 55	29 24	3 0
GER-EGEd	Women	1988-1990 1991-1993	18 29	22 14	0 0	3 2	33 0	0 0	5 12	20 25	0 0
GER-RHNa	Men	1982-1984 1985-1987 1988-1990	147 493 193	0 0 0	100 100 100	48 147 45	0 0 0	100 100 100	92 315 115	0 0 0	100 100 100
GER-RHNa	Women	1982-1984 1985-1987 1988-1990	41 117 35	0 0 0	100 100 100	5 19 5	0 0 0	100 100 100	24 70 21	0 0 0	100 100 100
RUA	Sex	Years	no previous MI¹			previous MI²			previous CHD³
RUA	Sex	Years	N	1	9	N	1	9	N	1	9
ICE-ICEb	Men	1982-1984 1988-1990 1991-1993	155 67 176	23 19 21	1 0 0	47 21 23	57 43 43	0 0 0	dnc dnc dnc	dnc dnc dnc	dnc dnc dnc
ICE-ICEb	Women	1982-1984 1988-1990 1991-1993	37 16 40	30 13 18	0 0 0	11 3 6	82 67 33	0 0 0	dnc dnc dnc	dnc dnc dnc	dnc dnc dnc
ITA-BRIa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	131 482 724 254	11 7 6 7	2 0 3 10	37 113 143 39	32 26 30 41	3 3 1 10	52 175 200 65	31 22 26 40	4 2 2 6
ITA-BRIa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	15 73 106 46	27 14 8 15	0 0 7 4	2 9 8 4	0 33 13 25	0 0 0 0	5 23 20 7	20 26 10 14	0 0 5 0
ITA-FRIa	Men	1982-1984 1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	208 665 657 686	6 7 8 8	4 4 1 3	50 141 161 175	20 24 32 34	0 0 1 5	83 270 275 288	18 19 24 32	0 1 1 6
ITA-FRIa	Women	1982-1984 1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	44 138 114 150	9 4 10 12	2 3 3 4	13 31 14 22	15 19 29 41	0 0 7 0	18 64 36 54	11 14 22 33	0 0 6 4
LTU-KAUa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	118 327 233	1 1 0	0 0 0	35 119 77	3 3 1	0 0 0	77 240 155	3 2 1	0 0 0
LTU-KAUa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	28 84 50	0 2 0	0 0 0	5 22 15	0 5 7	0 0 0	20 56 35	0 4 3	0 0 0
RUA	Sex	Years	no previous MI¹			previous MI²			previous CHD³
RUA	Sex	Years	N	1	9	N	1	9	N	1	9
NEZ-AUCa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	103 98 108	19 16 11	3 0 0	43 38 30	26 34 37	0 0 0	45 38 31	27 34 39	0 0 0
NEZ-AUCa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	39 29 42	5 28 19	0 0 0	13 4 9	46 25 33	0 0 0	14 5 10	43 20 30	0 0 0
POL-TARa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	26 186 147	0 1 2	73 88 87	43 77 41	0 0 0	98 100 98	43 77 41	0 0 0	98 100 98
POL-TARa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	11 36 25	9 0 0	45 94 92	3 10 19	0 0 0	100 100 100	3 10 19	0 0 0	100 100 100
POL-WARa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	304 511 470 150	6 6 6 7	22 23 26 29	126 181 210 53	10 11 15 6	35 48 55 58	279 425 451 131	10 10 12 8	37 44 51 56
POL-WARa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	92 180 152 60	9 8 7 7	32 23 30 15	33 34 55 24	12 9 7 8	36 56 51 58	88 140 147 44	11 11 7 9	43 39 50 45
RUS-MOSa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	135 415 422	4 3 1	25 7 11	62 145 175	13 6 9	44 22 22	dnc 307 321	dnc 7 7	dnc 16 18
RUS-MOSa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	33 99 114	3 2 4	45 11 21	14 26 28	0 12 18	57 27 25	dnc 78 73	dnc 5 10	dnc 19 25
RUS-NOVa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	179 221 487	0 0 6	6 0 7	92 125 227	4 0 7	12 2 7	170 257 490	2 0 8	9 2 7
RUS-NOVa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	63 61 143	0 0 14	3 0 5	23 24 56	0 0 4	9 4 5	65 61 162	0 0 12	5 2 6
RUA	Sex	Years	no previous MI¹			previous MI²			previous CHD³
RUA	Sex	Years	N	1	9	N	1	9	N	1	9
SPA-CATa	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
SWE-GOTa	Men	1985-1987 1991-1993	177 118	19 16	0 2	43 37	65 62	0 0	43 37	65 62	0 0
SWE-GOTa	Women	1985-1987 1991-1993	45 29	36 28	0 0	13 5	62 60	0 0	13 5	62 60	0 0
SWE-NSWa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	170 429 760 422	18 13 15 16	12 9 1 0	58 121 203 109	40 32 55 62	33 21 4 0	dnc dnc dnc 216	dnc dnc dnc 48	dnc dnc dnc 0
SWE-NSWa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	45 108 198 105	27 10 20 20	18 16 2 0	10 25 42 26	20 24 60 58	40 40 5 0	dnc dnc dnc 51	dnc dnc dnc 53	dnc dnc dnc 0
SWI-SWIa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	266 263 236	12 10 8	2 3 1	65 66 59	32 30 49	0 5 0	127 108 90	28 24 40	2 3 0
UNK-BELa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	244 692 590	10 12 14	0 1 0	100 251 215	39 41 53	1 0 0	142 383 319	35 37 48	1 1 0
UNK-BELa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	74 251 211	19 18 16	1 0 0	23 52 58	39 42 43	0 2 0	47 115 101	28 33 39	0 1 0
RUA	Sex	Years	no previous MI¹			previous MI²			previous CHD³
RUA	Sex	Years	N	1	9	N	1	9	N	1	9
UNK-GLAa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	659 553 523 163	11 11 12 9	1 0 0 0	278 271 273 98	28 31 31 30	1 0 0 0	419 388 412 128	27 29 28 29	1 0 0 0
UNK-GLAa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	239 266 234 76	17 11 13 12	1 0 0 0	87 91 94 35	22 27 37 26	0 0 0 0	164 155 166 52	24 22 33 27	0 0 0 0
USA-STAa	Men	1981 1982-1984 1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	66 47 123 133 131	12 13 13 6 7	12 0 2 2 1	36 27 52 55 60	28 26 31 25 22	8 0 2 2 0	36 27 52 55 60	28 26 31 25 22	8 0 2 2 0
USA-STAa	Women	1981 1982-1984 1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993	14 20 40 54 39	7 25 28 11 13	7 5 5 0 0	8 7 11 11 17	0 43 27 9 12	13 0 9 0 0	8 7 11 11 17	0 43 27 9 12	13 0 9 0 0
YUG-NOSa	Men	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	98 262 348 189	3 2 2 1	6 5 11 12	22 66 53 41	0 2 2 5	36 26 38 34	dnc dnc dnc dnc	dnc dnc dnc dnc	dnc dnc dnc dnc
YUG-NOSa	Women	1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	15 85 95 50	0 1 2 8	20 9 11 12	4 17 14 12	0 0 0 8	50 24 64 17	dnc dnc dnc dnc	dnc dnc dnc dnc	dnc dnc dnc dnc
RUA	Sex	Years	no previous MI¹			previous MI²			previous CHD³
RUA	Sex	Years	N	1	9	N	1	9	N	1	9

RUA	Sex	Years	no previous MI¹			previous MI²			previous CHD³
RUA	Sex	Years	NRUAs	1	9	-	1	9	-	1	9
Mean	Men	1981 1982-1984 1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	1 7 30 29 31 8	12 10 10 9 10 8	12 17 10 9 6 7		28 26 27 26 33 34	8 15 14 12 8 14		28 20 24 22 28 32	8 22 12 12 8 10
Mean	Women	1981 1982-1984 1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	1 7 29 28 30 8	7 16 15 12 15 15	7 15 11 10 7 5		0 35 23 25 29 23	13 19 17 15 9 13		0 23 20 19 26 28	13 22 13 12 9 9
Median	Men	1981 1982-1984 1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	1 7 30 29 31 8	12 12 11 10 11 8	12 3 3 2 1 3		28 26 29 31 34 36	8 0 4 2 1 4		28 22 27 25 31 36	8 2 3 2 2 2
Median	Women	1981 1982-1984 1985-1987 1988-1990 1991-1993 1994-1995	1 7 29 28 30 8	7 18 14 11 15 14	7 1 3 0 2 2		0 43 20 26 30 25	13 0 0 1 0 0		0 22 19 20 28 27	13 0 2 2 1 0
RUA	Sex	Years	no previous MI¹			previous MI²			previous CHD³
RUA	Sex	Years	NRUAs	1	9	-	1	9	-	1	9

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N:	number of events
NRUAs:	number of Reporting Unit Agregates in the sex and year group
1:	percentage of events where the patient received the drug or treatment (insufficient data were included in the denominator)
9:	percentage of events with insufficient data
dnc:	data on HISIHD were not collected in non-fatal events
¹no previous MI:	PREMI = 6 or 7
²previous MI:	PREMI = 1 or 2 or 3 or 5
³previous CHD:	PREMI = 1 or 2 or 3 or 5 or HISIHD=1
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