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Reduce deaths from cardiovascular disease in persons with chronic kidney failure.

Target: 52 deaths per 1,000 patient years at risk.

Baseline: 70 deaths from cardiovascular disease per 1,000 patient years at risk (in persons with ESRD) occurred in 1997.

Target setting method: Better than the best.

Data source: U.S. Renal Data System (USRDS), NIH, NIDDK.

Persons With Treated Chronic Kidney
Failure, 1997

Deaths From
Cardiovascular Disease

Per 1,000 Patient Years at Risk

TOTAL

70

Race and ethnicity

American Indian or Alaska Native

63

Asian or Pacific Islander

60

Asian

DNC

Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander

DNC

Black or African American

62

White

75

 

Hispanic or Latino

DNA

Not Hispanic or Latino

DNA

Black or African American

DNA

White

DNA

Gender

Female

73

Male

67

Family income level

Poor

DNC

Near Poor

DNC

Middle/high income

DNC

DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.