Demographic and Regional Trends of Mortality in Patients With Aortic Dissection in the United States, 1999 to 2019.

ABSTRACT: Background Aortic dissection (AoD) is associated with high morbidity and mortality. However, the burden of AoD mortality is not well characterized, and contemporary data and mortality trends in different demographic and geographic subgroups have not been described. Methods and Results Trends in AoD mortality were assessed using a cross-sectional analysis of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database. Crude and age-adjusted mortality rates (AAMR) per 1 million people with associated annual percent changes were determined. Joinpoint regression was used to assess trends in the overall sample and different demographic (sex, race and ethnicity, age) and geographic subgroups. Between 1999 and 2019, a total of 86 855 AoD deaths occu

SUBMITTER: Nazir S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9075427 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature