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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 19.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Res. 2018 Jan 19;122(2):213–230. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.117.312243

Figure 1. Death rates among Blacks and Whites, by age group (years) – United States, 1999–2015.

Figure 1

Among adults aged ≥65 years, the death rate in 2015 relative to that in 1999 declined 27% for Blacks and 17% for Whites, resulting in a crossover in death rates beginning in 2010, when Blacks had lower death rates than Whites. Reproduced from Cunningham TJ, et al. Vital Signs: Racial Disparities in Age-Specific Mortality Among Blacks or African Americans - United States, 1999-2015. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. May 05 2017;66(17):444-456.