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June 6, 2023
EXCERPT
- In all regions, ischaemic heart disease is the leading cause of CVD mortality across males and females, except for
– females in the Sub-Saharan Africa region and
– both males and females in South Asia where stroke is the leading cause of CVD mortality (Figure 6).
- Stroke is on average the second leading cause of CVD mortality across regions.
Figure 6 — Cause-specific regional age-standardised cardiovascular disease death rate, 2019.
Source: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). GBD Compare Data Visualization. Seattle, WA: IHME, University of Washington, 2020. Available from http://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare. (18 March 2023).
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World heart report 2023 — Confronting the world’s number one killer
World Heart Federation (WHF).
Mariachiara Di Cesare, Honor Bixby, Thomas Gaziano, Lisa Hadeed, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Diana Vaca McGhie, Jeremiah Mwangi, Borjana Pervan, Pablo Perel, Daniel Piñeiro, Sean Taylor, Fausto Pinto.
Reviewers: Victor Aboyans, Álvaro Avezum, Rick Chazal, Jean-Luc Eiselé, Naomi Herz, Andre Pascal Kengne, Angela Koh, Amam Mbakwem, Jagat Narula, Gregory Roth, Saate Shakil.
Editor: Edward Fox.
The World Heart Report 2023 was made possible through support from Novartis Foundation.
