Prevalence of adults with no known major risk factors for coronary heart disease--behavioral risk factor surveillance system, 1992

Abstract

Although the death rate for coronary heart disease (CHD) in the United States has declined approximately 50% since 1970, CHD remains the leading cause of death for both men and women and, in 1990, accounted for 489,340 deaths. National strategies and programs have targeted individual risk factors for death attributed to CHD. However, an alternative approach may be to measure the prevalence of adults who have no known risk factors for CHD. This report provides state-specific estimates of and characterizes adults who report having no known major risk factors for CHD.