‡ Age standardized rates are standardized to the European standard population.
All results are age-standardized to the WHO standard population.
All ASRs were standardized using the world standard population [ 31], and the weights were taken from the population distribution of the world standard population.
Overall rates were age-standardized using the WHO standard population "Europe".
aAge-standardized to the 2000 US standard population.
Importantly, patient age was standardized according to the European standard population of 1976.
*Age standardized incidence rate adjusted to the world standard population.
The prevalence estimates were standardized by age using Segi's world standard population, European standard population and Russian population (based on data from the National Census in 2002) [ 26].
Standardization was performed using the direct method (world standard population).
*: Standardized mortality calculated in direct method by world standard population.
