Pulmonary hypertension mortality trends in United States 1999-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a heterogenous, often progressive disorder leading to right heart failure and death. Previous analyses show stable PH mortality rates from 1980 to 2001 but increasing from 2001 to 2010 especially among women and non-Hispanic (NH) Black. This study seeks to identify recent trends in PH mortality in the United States from 1999 to 2019.

Methods

Mortality rates among individuals more than or equal to 15 years of age were obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiology Research (WONDER) database. ICD-10 codes were used to identify individuals with PH.

Results

Between 1999 and 2019, PH was included as a cause on 429,105 recorded deaths. The average age-adjusted PH mortality

SUBMITTER: Kang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9709717 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature