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. 2018 Sep 7;67(35):974–982. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6735a3

FIGURE.

The figure above is a map showing the age-standardized overall Million Hearts–preventable event rates among adults aged ≥18 years by U.S. state in 2016.

Age-standardized overall Million Hearts–preventable event* rates among adults aged ≥18 years, by U.S. state,† 2016

Sources: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Emergency Department Databases and State Inpatient Databases; National Center for Health Statistics’ National Vital Statistics System Mortality Data.

* Includes mutually exclusive nonfatal treat-and-release emergency department visits, nonfatal acute hospitalizations and deaths attributed to acute myocardial infarctions, strokes, precursor cardiovascular conditions (e.g., stable angina pectoris), and other cardiovascular conditions (e.g., heart failure).

† Complete data are available for 34 states and the District of Columbia (DC). Supplementary Figure 1 shows age-standardized rates of treat-and-release emergency department visits for 34 states and DC, hospitalizations for 46 states and DC, and mortality for 50 states and DC (https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/58168).