In 2020, just under 697,000 deaths in the U.S. were attributed to heart disease, making it the nation's leading cause of death.  That year there were 19,063 deaths in the five-state Rocky Mountain region that were attributable to heart disease.   In a pattern seen throughout much of the nation, the heart disease death rate for men in the Rocky Mountain states was noticeably higher than it was for women.  That said, the heart disease death rate for both genders in the region was much lower than the national average, which is not surprising given that the Rocky Mountain states collectively had the lowest regional heart disease death rate in the nation in 2020.  A summary review of data from the National Center for Health Statistics, a unit of the CDC, reveals the following about male vs. female heart disease death rates in the Rocky Mountain region:

Male vs. Female Heart Disease Death Rates in the Rocky Mountain Region

	Deaths	Population	Death Rate*
Regionwide	19,063	12,547,416	151.9
Male	10,593	6,320,743	167.6
Female	8,470	6,226,673	136.0
Nationwide	696,962	329,484,123	211.5
Male	382,776	162,256,202	235.9
Female	314,186	167,227,921	187.9

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

Report Period: 2020

States in Region:  Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming

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 March 31, 2023