Letters

摘要

Despite considerable information on overall heart disease (HD) and coronary HD (CHD) mortality trends, less is known about trends for other HD subtypes. This study examines the contributions of HD subtypes to overall HD mortality trends during 2000-2010. Mortality data were obtained from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WONDER database, which contains death certificate information collected, via the National Vital Statistics System, from every US state and the District of Columbia. Deaths were included that occurred during 2000-2010 among US residents aged 35 years or older with an underlying cause of death International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision code for CHD, heart failure, hypertensive HD (HHD), valvular HD, arrhythmia, pulmonary HD, or other HD (Table). This study was determined to be exempt from review by an institutional review board.