Indicator Profile of Deaths due to Coronary Heart Disease

Why Is This Important?

Heart disease is the leading cause of death of men and women in the United States and in New Jersey. Coronary heart disease is the most common type of heart disease and can cause heart attack, angina, heart failure, and arrhythmias.

Death Rate due to Coronary Heart Disease, Age-Adjusted, by Year, New Jersey and the United States, 1999-2007 (*HNJ2010*)

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Data Notes

* This is a Healthy New Jersey 2010 objective. * 

Data Sources

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Compressed Mortality File. CDC WONDER On-line Database accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd10.html;  New Jersey Death Certificate Database, Bureau of Vital Statistics and Registration, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services;  Population Estimates: New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, State Data Center; 

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Definition

Deaths with coronary heart disease as the underlying cause of death.
ICD-10 codes: I11, I20-I25

How We Calculated the Rates

Numerator: Number of deaths due to coronary heart disease
Denominator: Total number of persons in the population

Page Content Updated On 06/17/11, Published on 08/03/11
Center for Health Statistics, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, PO Box 360, Trenton, NJ 08625-0360, Phone: 609-984-6703, Fax: 609-984-7633, e-mail: chs@doh.state.nj.us, Web: www.nj.gov/health/chs
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Content updated: Wed, 2 May 2012 04:01:10 EDT