Heart Disease and Stroke Atlases
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- 2010 Atlas of Heart Disease Hospitalizations Among Medicare Beneficiaries
Heart disease has consistently been a public health concern and is the leading cause of death in the United States. For coronary heart disease alone, the estimated direct and indirect costs for the overall U.S. population are approximately $165.4 billion for 2009. - 2008 Atlas of Stroke Hospitalizations Among Medicare Beneficiaries
Stroke is a major public health issue with direct costs for care estimated at $41.6 billion and indirect costs in terms of lost productivity from either illness or death estimated at an additional $21.1 billion for 2007. - Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke Among American Indians and Alaska Natives
Among American Indians and Alaska Natives, heart disease and stroke are the first and sixth leading causes of death. - The Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke
An estimated 17 million people worldwide die of cardiovascular diseases, particularly heart attacks and strokes. - The Atlas of Stroke Mortality: Racial, Ethnic and Geographic Disparities in the United States
The third in a series of CDC atlases related to cardiovascular disease, published through a collaboration between CDC and West Virginia University. - Men and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality
This atlas is available in hard copy only.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men of all racial and ethnic groups, and although about half of all heart disease deaths occur among men and half among women, more than 70 percent of premature (i.e., younger than age 65 years) heart disease deaths occur among men. - Women and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality—Second Edition
This atlas is available in hard copy only.
While there is growing awareness that heart disease is the leading cause of death for women, claiming more than 372,000 lives in 1995 alone, few studies of heart disease in women have examined geographic disparities.
- Page last reviewed: July 23, 2013
- Page last updated: July 23, 2013
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