Research Article

Contribution of Alcohol to Hypertension Mortality in Russia

Table 2

Estimated effects (bivariate ARIMA model) of overall alcohol consumption on IHD mortality rates.

ParameterModelEstim. AAF

HTN mortality males 0.1.1*0.063**0.0000.575
HTN mortality females 0.1.1 0.0490.0010.486

The general form of nonseasonal ARIMA model is ( , , ), where is the order of the autoregressive parameter, is the order of differencing, and is the order of the moving average parameter. -test for residuals are satisfactory in all models.
**Estimates express the actual alcohol effect/100.