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Widening Rural-Urban Cardiometabolic Mortality Gap in the United States, 1999 to 2017

Description
Examines mortality related to cardiometabolic disease in rural and urban populations of the United States. Utilizes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Wide Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) from 1999 to 2017 to provide statistics on heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and diabetes mortality by race, sex, and rurality.
Author(s)
Nilay S. Shah, Mercedes Carnethon, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, Sadiya S. Khan
Citation
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 75(25), 3187-3188
Date
06/2020
Type
Document
Tagged as
Black or African American · Cardiovascular disease · Diabetes · Health conditions · Health disparities · Mortality · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data