Trends in ischemic heart disease mortality--United States, 1980-1988.
In 1989, approximately 500,000 persons died from ischemic heart disease (IHD), the leading cause of death in the United States (1). This report summarizes an analysis by CDC to characterize trends in IHD mortality in the United States from 1980 through 1988 (the latest year for which data are available), and emphasizes comparisons by race and sex, region, and state.
D000328:Adult; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000208:ethnology / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology