Cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality trends for males and females (United States: 1979-2016)

CVD excludes congenital cardiovascular defects (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision [ICD-10] codes I00-I99). The overall comparability for cardiovascular disease between the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision (1979-1998) and ICD-10 (1999-2015) is 0.9962. No comparability ratios were applied.