Disparities in Cardiovascular Mortality Between Black and White Adults in the United States, 1999 to 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Black adults experience a disproportionately higher burden of cardiovascular risk factors and disease in comparison with White adults in the United States. Less is known about how sex-based disparities in cardiovascular mortality between these groups have changed on a national scale over the past 20 years, particularly across geographic determinants of health and residential racial segregation.

Methods

We used CDC WONDER (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research) to identify Black and White adults age ≥25 years in the United States from 1999 to 2019. We calculated annual age-adjusted cardiovascular mortality rates (per 100 000) for Black and White women and men, as well as absolute rate differences and rate r

SUBMITTER: Kyalwazi AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9310198 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature