Trends in Pulmonary Hypertension Mortality and Morbidity

Table 1

Age-standardized and age-specific death rates∗ for pulmonary hypertension† as any contributing cause of death for groups defined by selected characteristics and by period: United States, 1999–2008.

Characteristic	1999–2001	2002–2005	2006–2008
Age-standardized^†† death rate
All	5.5	5.5	5.8
Men	5.6	5.3	5.3
Women	5.4	5.7	6.1
Race
Black	7.4	7.6	8.1
White	5.3	5.3	5.6
Asian/Pacific Islander	2.6	2.5	2.8
American Indian	4.0	3.9	3.9
Hispanic origin
Hispanic	3.2	3.1	3.1
Non-Hispanic	5.6	5.7	5.9
Age-specific death rate
0–44 yrs	0.9	0.8	0.7
45–54 yrs	2.8	2.7	2.8
55–64 yrs	7.2	7.0	7.0
65–74 yrs	19.4	19.0	18.3
75–84 yrs	37.1	39.0	43.0
>85 yrs	60.8	67.4	80.0

∗Per 100,000 population; ^†International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision Codes I27.0, I27.2, I27.8, and I27.9; ^††to the 2000 U.S. standard population.