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Deaths due to Coronary Heart Disease by Year, New Jersey and the United States, 2000 to 2020
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Why Is This Important?
Heart disease is the leading cause of death of men and women in the United States and in New Jersey. Coronary heart disease is the most common type of heart disease and can cause heart attack, angina, heart failure, and arrhythmias.
Definition
Deaths with coronary heart disease as the underlying cause of death. ICD-10 codes: I11 (hypertensive heart disease), I20-I25 (ischemic heart disease)
Data Notes
- Data have been age-adjusted to the U.S. 2000 standard population.
- This is Healthy New Jersey 2020 (HNJ2020) Objective HDS-1.
Data Sources
- Death Certificate Database, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry, New Jersey Department of Health
(https://www.nj.gov/health/vital/) - Population Estimates, State Data Center, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
(https://www.nj.gov/labor/labormarketinformation/demographics/population-household-estimates/) - Underlying Cause of Death, CDC WONDER On-line Database, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(https://wonder.cdc.gov/Deaths-by-Underlying-Cause.html)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of deaths due to coronary heart diseaseDenominator:
Estimated number of persons in the population
Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2030
Healthy People 2030 Objective HDS-02
U.S. Target: Reduce coronary heart disease deaths to 71.1 deaths per 100,000 population (age-adjusted) by 2030.0
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/heart-disease-and-stroke/reduce-coronary-heart-disease-deaths-hds-02
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective HDS-2
U.S. Target: Reduce coronary heart disease deaths to 103.4 deaths per 100,000 population (age-adjusted) by 2020.0
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/heart-disease-and-stroke
Health Initiative: HNJ2020
Healthy NJ 2020 Objective HDS-1
NJ Target: Reduce coronary heart disease deaths to 112.1 per 100,000 population (age-adjusted) for the total population, 52.9 for Asians, 133.8 for Blacks, 62.6 for Hispanics, and 115.7 for Whites by 2020.0
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/heart-disease-stroke.shtml
Health Initiative: CDI
Chronic Disease Indicator CVD08
Description: Coronary heart disease mortality among all people, underlying cause
https://www.cdc.gov/cdi/indicator-definitions/cardiovascular-disease.html