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. 2021 Jun 7:34:100812.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijcha.2021.100812. eCollection 2021 Jun.

The contemporary trends and geographic variation in premature mortality due to heart failure from 1999 to 2018 in the United States

Ali Raza Ghani  1 , Mohsin Sheraz Mughal  2 , Sundeep Kumar  1 , Sara Aslam  3 , Mahboob Alam  4 , Mohammed Haris Usman  5 , Deanna Mikhalkova  1
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The contemporary trends and geographic variation in premature mortality due to heart failure from 1999 to 2018 in the United States

Ali Raza Ghani et al. Int J Cardiol Heart Vasc. .

Abstract

Objectives: We aimed to examine the contemporary trends and regional variations in premature mortality due to heart failure across the U.S. from 1999 to 2018.

Background: For most U.S. census regions, it is unknown whether premature mortality (deaths among persons under age 65) due to heart failure is increasing -or decreasing.

Methods: In this descriptive study, the death certificate data were retrieved from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) database and examined from 1999 to 2018 for the underlying cause of death. Age-adjusted mortality rates (AAMR) per 100,000 persons and annual percent change (APC) in rates stratified by census region were calculated using Joinpoint trend analysis software.

Results: There were 118,116 premature deaths due to heart failure from 1999 to 2018 across the U.S. Of these 52.40% of deaths were reported in the South, 20.30% in the Midwest, 15.10% in the West, and 12.20% in the Northeast. The AAMRs were the highest in the South region (range: 3.1-4.9) and the lowest in the Northeast region (range: 1.5-1.9). There was an overall decline in mortality across all regions from 1999 till 2011-2012. However, mortality has an upward trajectory throughout all the census regions after 2012.

Conclusions: This study on nationwide data showed that overall premature mortality due to heart failure declined from 1999 to 2011-2012 followed by an upward trajectory from 2012 to 2018; the explanation for this merits further discovery.

Keywords: Census regions; Disparities; Heart failure; Premature mortality.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors report no relationships that could be construed as a conflict of interest.

Figures

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Annual Percent Change (APC) among male (Northeast, South, West, Midwest regions).
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Annual Percent Change (APC) among female (Northeast, South, West, Midwest regions).
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Age-adjusted mortality rate by year and by census region.
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Census regions of the United States, prepare by the Geography division.
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