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Healthy
People 2010: Focus Area 12
Heart Disease and Stroke
Graph: Coronary
Heart Disease and Stroke Deaths
(By year, United States, 1979–98)
Deaths per 100,000*
Graph showing decline
in death rates for coronary heart disease and stroke. Coronary heart
disease death rates age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. population declined from
about 350 deaths per 100,000 population in 1979 to 208 deaths per 100,000
population in 1998. Stroke death rates age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S.
population declined from 97 deaths per 100,000 population in 1979 to 60
deaths per 100,000 population in 1998.
*Age adjusted to the
year 2000 standard population
Source: CDC, NCHS. National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), 1979–98.
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to Healthy People 2010: Focus Area 12]
Date last reviewed:
05/12/2006
Content source: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke
Prevention,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
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