Male deaths caused by heart disease, by county.Reports on the number of male deaths from coronary heart disease (CHD) in the United States. Protection of women from heart disease; Increase in CHD in the 1920s; Effect of cigarette smoking; CHD risk factors.Doyle...
But between 2019 and 2021, the death rate from heart disease for those 35 and over was 647 per 100,000 people in Panola County compared to 395 per 100,000 in Oktibbeha County, according to CDC data. In more urban...
Although age-adjusted heart disease mortality has declined since the 1960s, this decline may not have applied equally to all subgroups.To examine recent trends in heart disease mortality, specifically in women and in the elderly.Age- and sex-specific heart disease mortality (International Classificati...
In a seven-year follow-up of 3,102 Evans County, Georgia, residents examined in the prevalence survey of 1960 through 1962, 143 new cases of coronary heart disease (CHD) occurred, 56 of which resulted in death during the interval. Ethnic differences in CHD among males discovered during 1960...
Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S., killing nearly 700,000 people in 2020. The county-level prevalence of this heart condition is a component of the 2022 Healthiest Communities rankings, which explore the critical role location plays in determining the health and well...
Study candidates also must have a history of heart disease such as a heart attack, bypass surgery or angioplasty or other risk factors such as diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, smoking or a family history of early heart disease.
Despite these declines, heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death in the USA. We propose a non-separable multivariate spatiotemporal Bayesian model to obtain a clearer picture of the temporally varying trends in county level heart disease death rates for men and women of different...
Few studies have determined whether greater carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) in asymptomatic individuals is associated prospectively with increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). In the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, carotid IMT, an index of generalized atherosclerosis, was ...
Related to Arteriosclerotic heart disease: Coronary Arteriosclerosisar·te·ri·o·scle·ro·sis (är-tîr′ē-ō-sklə-rō′sĭs) n. Any of several chronic diseases, such as atherosclerosis, that are characterized by thickening and loss of elasticity of the walls of the arteries and that...
Published in theJournal of the American Heart Association, the study showed that deaths fromheart diseaseconsistently declined at the county level from 2009 to 2018. "Even though the rates ofcardiovascular diseaseare decreasing, the gaps between rural andurban healthand counties with more Black reside...