Demographic and Regional Trends of Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity-Related Mortality in the United States From 1999 to 2021

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medicine, MedStar Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
• ² Department of Medicine, University at Buffalo-Catholic Health System, Buffalo, New York.
• ³ Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
• ⁴ Section of Cardiovascular Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
• ⁵ Division of Cardiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina; Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina.
• ⁶ Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi; Baylor Scott and White Research Institute, Dallas, Texas.
• ⁸ Baylor Scott and White Research Institute, Dallas, Texas; The Heart Hospital Plano, Plano, Texas; Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Temple, Texas. Electronic address: shahzebkhan@gmail.com.