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According to a modern report by the Centers for Disease govern and Prevention (CDC), geographic disparities in the number of hit deaths vary significantly among racial and ethnic form into groupss including blacks being 1.4 times more likely to die of a pat than whites, and more than twice as likely as Hispanics and Native Americans to die of a visitation It also showed that blacks were more likely to die of reverse at an earlier age, with almost 50 percent of hardship deaths occurring before the age of 75 years, compared with 45 percent among Asians and Pacific Islanders, and 25 percent among whites. The report, Atlas of reverse Mortality, provides national and state maps depicting disparities in county-level shock death rates from 1991 to 1998 for adults age 35 years and older in the five largest racial and ethnic collections in the United States (blacks, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asians and Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, and whites). The Atlas reports that the overall thump death rates for adults age 35 years and older was 121 by 100,000. The Atlas of pat Mortality is the third in a series of CDC atlases onward cardiovascular diseases. For a emancipated copy of the report, call 888-232-2306 To view interactive maps of rap mortality or download sections of the report, visit www.cdc.gov/cvh/maps.

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