In 2022, around 30 percent of premature deaths from heart disease among people below the age of 80 living in large central metropolitan areas were preventable. In contrast, this figure was almost 50 percent for premature deaths from heart disease recorded in noncore regions.
Percentage of preventable premature heart disease deaths in the United States from 2010 to 2022, by rural-urban county classification
*Data for 2022 are provisional counts from January through June and were annualized for comparability with previous years.
The source defines preventable premature deaths as follows: "...deaths among persons aged <80 years in excess of the number that would be expected if the death rates for each cause in all states were equivalent to those in the benchmark states (i.e., the three states with the lowest rates). Estimates of potentially excess deaths that were negative were set to zero. These negative excess estimates occurred in cases where deaths were fewer than expected (i.e., mortality was lower than benchmark rates)."
"The percentage of preventable premature deaths was calculated by dividing the number of preventable premature deaths by the total observed number of premature deaths."
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