Figure 1.

Age-standardised acute myocardial infarction death rate and its contributors in districts of England in women and men

The maps show the geography of death rate and each contributor (insets show London). The scatter plots show the relationship between pairs of contributors, or contributors and death rates. All variables were age-standardised. The scale on each scatter plot ranges from 0 to 2 × the mean of the values across all districts to allow the extent of variation to be compared among variables. The colour corresponds to the number of SDs above or below the mean value across all districts. The appendix shows maps and scatter plots with numerical scales (pp 10–11) and the posterior probabilities that the estimated rates and case fatality for each district are higher or lower than the national average (pp 12–13).