Heart disease accounted for nearly 697,000 deaths in the U.S. in the 2020 calendar year.  In the six-state Far Western U.S., there were more than 96,800 heart disease deaths that year.   Conforming to a pattern seen elsewhere in the country, the heart disease death rate for men in the Far Western states was worse than it was for women.  That said, the heart disease death rate for both genders in the Far West was below the overall national average death rate from heart disease in 2020.  That result was in keeping with the fact that the Far Western U.S. had the nation's second-lowest regional heart disease death rate in 2020. A more detailed examination of data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics reveals the following about male vs. female heart disease death rates in the Far Western U.S.:

Male vs. Female Heart Disease Death Rates in the Far Western U.S.

	Deaths	Population	Death Rate*
Regionwide	96,816	56,579,620	171.1
Male	54,932	28,192,091	194.8
Female	41,884	28,387,529	147.5
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:  Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington

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 April 8, 2023