---
language:
- en
pretty_name: 'DQS Death rates for heart disease, by sex, race, Hispanic origin, and
  age: United States from CDC WONDER'
tags:
- hhs
- cdc
- asian
- men
- mortality
- white
- women
---

# DQS Death rates for heart disease, by sex, race, Hispanic origin, and age: United States from CDC WONDER

## Description

Data on death rates for diseases of heart in the United States, by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Data are from Health, United States. SOURCE: National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality File.
Search, visualize, and download these and other estimates from over 120 health topics with the NCHS Data Query System (DQS), available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/dataquery/index.htm.

## Dataset Details

- **Publisher**: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- **Temporal Coverage**: 1950/2022
- **Last Modified**: 2025-04-21
- **Contact**: National Center for Health Statistics (healthus@cdc.gov)

## Source

Original data can be found at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus

## Usage

You can load this dataset using:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
 dataset = load_dataset('HHS-Official/dqs-death-rates-for-heart-disease-by-sex-race-hisp')
```
## License

This dataset is licensed under https://www.usa.gov/government-works