In 2020, heart disease was responsible for 696,962 deaths in the U.S., an increase of about 5.8% from the prior year.  That year, heart disease accounted for 80,454 deaths in the four-state Southwest region of the U.S.  With 187.7 deaths per 100,000 population, the U.S. Southwest had a regional heart disease death rate in 2020 that was about 11% better than the national average.  An examination of state-level data from the National Center for Health Statistics, a unit of the CDC, provides the following details about heart disease death rates in the U.S. Southwest:

Heart Disease Death Rates in the U.S. Southwest

State	Deaths	Population	Death Rate*
Arizona	14,196	7,421,401	191.3
New Mexico	4,219	2,106,319	200.3
Oklahoma	11,758	3,980,783	295.4
Texas	50,281	29,360,759	171.3
Region	80,454	42,869,262	187.7
U.S.	696,962	329,484,123	211.5

(*) number of heart disease deaths per 100,000 population

Report Period: 2020

Source: CDC Wonder. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Underlying Cause of Death 1999-2020 on CDC WONDER Online Database, released in 2021. Data are from the Multiple Cause of Death Files, 1999-2020, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Accessed on June 15, 2022