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Joaquim Cardoso MSc
Joaquim Cardoso MSc
Chief Research and Strategy Officer (CRSO),
Editor in Chief and Senior Advisor
June 6, 2023
EXCERPT:
Globally, males have a higher age-standardized CVD death rate (280.8 deaths per 100,000 people in 2019) than females (204.0 deaths per 100,000 people in 2019) (Figure 2), though this difference is not consistent across all countries.
In 2019, CVD death rates were higher in males than females in all countries in the High-Income region, the Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia region, and the South Asia region.
Females had higher CVD death rates than males in the following:
- Six of 21 countries in the North Africa and Middle East region, with the highest differences in Qatar (464.6 compared to 301.9 deaths per 100,000 people for females and males respectively), Egypt (600.0 compared to 491.6 deaths per 100,000 people), and Algeria (447.7 compared to 371.5 deaths per 100,000 people).
- Thirteen of 46 countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa region, with the highest gaps observed in Mali, Mauritania, Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Ghana, and Sierra Leone (Figure 5).
Figure 5 — Male-female difference in age-standardised cardiovascular disease death rate (per 100,000 people) in Sub-Saharan Africa by country, 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.
