Share of preventable premature stroke deaths by rural-urban status U.S. 2022

In 2022, almost a third of premature deaths attributed to stroke in large central metropolitan areas in the United States were preventable. In comparison, more than 40 percent of premature deaths in noncore regions due to stroke at that time were considered preventable.

Percentage of preventable premature stroke deaths in the United States from 2010 to 2022, by rural-urban county classification

Characteristic	Large central metropolitan	Large fringe metropolitan	Medium metropolitan	Small metropolitan	Micropolitan	Noncore
2010	31.7%	22.7%	33.3%	34.9%	40.5%	41.6%
2011	30.1%	20.3%	31.3%	33.3%	38.6%	40.8%
2012	27.5%	19.7%	28.9%	30.5%	37.9%	37.5%
2013	26.7%	15.6%	28.4%	29.9%	37.1%	37.3%
2014	25.9%	17.1%	29.2%	29.7%	36.3%	38.3%
2015	27.1%	18.9%	29.6%	31.2%	36.5%	37.4%
2016	27.9%	18.5%	29.1%	31.4%	35.8%	39%
2017	27.4%	17%	28.9%	31.4%	35%	37.8%
2018	25.9%	17.7%	28.8%	28.6%	35.3%	37.8%
2019	26%	17.8%	27.3%	29.3%	33.4%	37%
2020	30.7%	22.1%	31.6%	34.3%	38.6%	41.4%
2021	31.6%	23.3%	34.6%	36.1%	41%	41.7%
2022*	32.8%	26.1%	35.7%	36.3%	42%	40.9%

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May 2024

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United States

Survey time period

2010 to 2022

Supplementary notes

*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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