Heart Disease Death Rates Among Blacks and Whites Aged ≥35 Years - United States, 1968-2015.

This study demonstrates the use of NVSS data to conduct surveillance of heart disease death rates by race and of black-white disparities in heart disease death rates. Continued surveillance of temporal trends in heart disease death rates by race can provide valuable information to policy makers and public health practitioners working to reduce heart disease death rates both for blacks and whites and disparities between blacks and whites.
PMID: 29596406 [PubMed - in process]

Source: MMWR Surveill Summ - March 30, 2018 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Van Dyke M, Greer S, Odom E, Schieb L, Vaughan A, Kramer M, Casper M Tags: MMWR Surveill Summ Source Type: research