{"id":6464,"date":"2022-06-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6464"},"modified":"2022-06-10T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T15:00:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-%e2%89%a518-years-with-diagnosed-heart-disease-by-urbanization-level-and-age-group-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/06\/10\/6464\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged \u226518 Years with Diagnosed Heart Disease,\u00a0by Urbanization Level\u00a0and Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7123a4-F.gif?_=04316\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"290\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, 6.3% percent of adults aged \u226518 years had diagnosed heart disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prevalence of heart disease among adults aged \u226518 years was higher among those living in nonmetropolitan areas (8.8%) compared with those living in metropolitan areas (5.8%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prevalence increased with age from 0.9% among adults aged 18\u201344 years to 5.9% among those aged 45\u201364 years and 18.2% among those aged \u226565 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among adults aged 45\u201364 years, those living in nonmetropolitan areas (7.8%) were more likely to have heart disease than those living in metropolitan areas (5.6%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no statistically significant difference by urbanization level for adults aged 18\u201344 or \u226565 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2020.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7123a4.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7123a4.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, 6.3% percent of adults aged \u226518 years had diagnosed heart disease. The prevalence of heart disease among adults aged \u226518 years was higher among those living in nonmetropolitan areas (8.8%) compared with those living in metropolitan areas (5.8%). Prevalence increased with age from 0.9% among adults aged 18\u201344 years to 5.9% among those<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5747,53746,53752,57495,63801],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}