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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 28.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2012 Dec 12;127(1):e6–e245. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0b013e31828124ad

Chart 13-17.

Chart 13-17

Cardiovascular disease mortality trends for males and females (United States: 1979–2009). CVD excludes congenital cardiovascular defects (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision codes I00–I99). The overall comparability for cardiovascular disease between the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision (1979–1998) and International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (1999–2009) is 0.9962. No comparability ratios were applied. Source: National Center for Health Statistics.