Map Details – Minnesota Heart Disease Mortality Age Adjusted Rates by County

Impact Statement

This map shows the overall heart disease mortality rate for the state and the total number of deaths. Age adjusted heart disease mortality rates by Minnesota county are shown in three 5-year time periods from 1995 through 2009.

Heart Disease Mortality, Age Adjusted Rates by County, 1995 through 2009

The quartile cutpoints are held constant across all three 5-year time periods to show both the ranking of counties within time periods, and also the county-specific and statewide decline in heart disease mortality over the 15-year time period. The 10 counties with the highest rates in each time period are highlighted in yellow to identify those counties with persistently high mortality. This map was included in Heart Disease & Stroke in Minnesota: 2011 Burden Report, published in 2011.

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Mortality Data from the Minnesota Department of Health Center for Health Statistics.

County level mortality data are compiled in three 5-year time periods in order to provide enough cases in small population counties to produce a rate. Age-adjusted rates (2000 US Standard Population) for all counties across all time periods are ranked into quartiles, with those quartile cutpoints held constant across the three time periods. This allows the viewer to see both the relative ranking of each county within each time period, but follow the general decline across all counties over the time period. The 10 counties with the highest rates in each time period are highlighted in yellow to help identify counties with persistently high mortality.

James Peacock, Epidemiologist Senior, Minnesota Department of Health
(651) 201-5405
james.peacock@state.mn.us

Heart Disease Mortality, Age Adjusted Rates by County, 1995 through 2009 James M. Peacock, [TODAY’S DATE].