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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 28.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2013 Dec 18;129(3):e28–e292. doi: 10.1161/01.cir.0000441139.02102.80

Chart 13-17.

Chart 13-17

Cardiovascular disease mortality trends for males and females (United States: 1979–2010). Cardiovascular disease excludes congenital cardiovascular defects (International Classification of Diseases [ICD], 10th Revision codes I00–I99). The overall comparability for cardiovascular disease between the ICD, 9th Revision codes (1979–1998) and ICD, 10th Revision codes (1999–2010) is 0.9962. No comparability ratios were applied. Source: National Center for Health Statistics and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.