Trends in cardiovascular mortality in the United States from 1968 to 2019: analysis of the CDC WONDER database

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 N. State St., Jackson, MS 39213, USA.
• ² Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.
• ³ Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health, Columbia, SC, USA.
• ⁵ Section on Cardiovascular Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
• ⁷ Texas Heart Institute and Section of Cardiovascular Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
• ⁸ Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.