U.S. Opioid and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Trends, 1999–2023

CDC WONDER death certificate data analyzed by Mohamed Fawzi Hemida characterizes long-term trends in mortality involving both opioid overdose and cardiovascular disease from 1999 to 2023. The dataset includes 112,430 identified deaths and provides age-adjusted mortality rates, crude mortality rates, and average annual percent change calculations. Results highlight disparities by sex, race, region, and urbanicity.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in combined opioid overdose and cardiovascular disease mortality based on age-adjusted mortality rates from 1999 to 2023.
• Investigate demographic disparities in mortality based on reported differences by sex, race, and age group.
• Compare regional and urban-rural mortality patterns based on data for U.S. regions and metropolitan status.
• Model the average annual percent change in mortality rates using joinpoint regression results.

Strengths

• Includes a specific count of 112,430 identified deaths.
• Covers a long temporal range from 1999 to 2023.
• Provides detailed demographic breakdowns by sex, race, age, region, and urbanicity.
• Uses standardized ICD-10 codes for cause-of-death classification.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is small (46.3 KB), suggesting limited scope or summary-level data.

Provenance

Source

CDC WONDER multiple cause-of-death files.

Collection Method

Retrospective analysis of death certificate data.

Time Range

1999 to 2023.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 04:29:54; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States.