The data was collected from CDC WONDER online database for 2021, the most recent data available. Here are the highest and lowest rates of heart disease death per 100,000 residents:
Highest rates:
- Oklahoma: 234.2
- Mississippi: 255.2
- Alabama: 247.5
- Louisiana: 235.5
- Arkansas: 231
- Tennessee: 223.8
- West Virginia: 223
- Kentucky: 217.5
- Michigan: 209.6
- Nevada: 208.1
Lowest rates:
- Minnesota: 123.9
- Hawaii: 126.5
- Massachusetts: 134
- Colorado: 135.1
- Connecticut: 136.7
- Washington: 147.7
- California: 147.8
- Oregon: 148.5
- Florida: 151.3
- North Dakota: 152.8