NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- It may be no
surprise to some that heart conditions are still one of the leading
causes of death in the United
States. However, people living in the South are
disproportionately more affected by fatal heart conditions than
other areas in the U.S.
ValuePenguin analyzed data from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) on heart disease in the United States and found that the
population's susceptibility to heart disease varies wildly
depending on state and county. For context, the CDC determined that
heart disease killed more than 469,000 middle-aged Americans from
2016 to 2018 – a rate of about 153 per 100,000
people.
Key findings:
- Heart disease is responsible for more fatalities relative to
population in the South than the rest of the
country – in the South the rate of fatal cases is
nearly one-eighth higher than average.
- There were 20 states that had higher-than-average rates of
deaths from heart disease. Thirteen of these states are located
in the South.
- Nationally, hypertension accounts for more than half of the
total deaths from cardiovascular disease.
- Compared to women, middle-aged men are about three times more
likely to die from heart attacks or coronary heart disease, while
senior men are only about one and a half times more at risk.
- In some counties in the United
States, the number of fatalities from heart attacks is more
than five times greater than average.
- The people who are most at risk of heart disease come from
socioeconomically underprivileged communities: The poverty rate
among the communities that have the highest rates of fatal cases of
heart disease is greater than 25% on average.
View full report: Heart Disease in America
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