In 2020, there were nearly 697,000 deaths in the United States that were attributable to heart disease, an increase of about 5.8% in such deaths from 2019 levels.  The five-state Great Lakes region recorded just under 113,000 heart disease deaths in 2020.  With 241.2 heart disease deaths per 100,000 population, the Great Lakes' regional heart disease death rate was 14% higher than the national average heart disease death rate of 211.5 per 100,000 population.  No other section of the country had a higher regional heart disease death rate than did the Great Lakes region, with all five states in the region having a heart disease death rate at the state level that was above the national average.  Further examination of data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics provides the following state-level details about heart disease death rates in the Great Lakes region:

Heart Disease Death Rates in the Great Lakes Region

State	Deaths	Population	Death Rate*
Illinois	27,460	12,587,530	218.2
Indiana	15,169	6,754,953	224.6
Michigan	27,127	9,966,555	272.2
Ohio	30,547	11,693,217	261.2
Wisconsin	12,641	5,832,655	216.7
Region	112,944	46,834,910	241.2
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 July 9, 2022