The chart illustrates the amount of deaths caused by cardiovascular disease for males and females in the United States between 1979 and 2002.
Overall, there is a big divergence between the number of deaths for both genders. For males, the highest disease mortality trend was captured in the first three years, the situation was completely opposite for women. Females were killed by the disease the most in between 1998 and 2000.
The number of deaths for males and females experienced an increase in between 1979 and 1981 before a slight fall. From that time, males only captured a slow decrease.
However, after 1981 the deaths for women increased to 500000 deaths, until the figure suddenly fell to 480000 deaths in 1989. The number for females reached it’s peak of 510000 deaths in 2001. The trend captured changes every year and the numbers never remained stable
