Table 3.

Heart disease death rates, age-standardized, for Blacks and Whites, aged 25–64, 1993–2001

	1993			2001
Education	Blacks	Whites	B/W Ratio	Blacks	Whites	B/W Ratio
Men
All	245.8	129.3	1.90	194.9	100.7	1.94
<12 years	281.7	228.8	1.23	262.9	214.9	1.22
12 years	305.6	163.9	1.86	258.2	145.2	1.78
13–15 years	161.5	95	1.70	120	73.1	1.64
16+ years	139.3	72.3	1.93	99.2	51.1	1.94
Women
All	122	44.8	2.72	106.1	37.9	2.80
<12 years	151.4	84.4	1.79	132.9	97.8	1.36
12 years	149	52.5	2.84	142.1	50.1	2.84
13–15 years	76.3	27.5	2.77	73	25.1	2.91
16+ years	73.1	20	3.66	62.8	16.9	3.72

Rates per 100,000; Jemal et al 2008.¹³