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HEALTH STATUS - Heart Disease & Cancer Death Rates
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Leading Causes of Death
Coronary Heart Disease Deaths by County: All counties experienced a decline in the rates of coronary heart disease between 1990 and 2005, with declines approximating almost 50 percent.

Cancer Deaths by County: All counties except Kaua'i experienced a decline in cancer mortality since 1990.  Kaua'i's cancer mortality rate increased 13 percent between 1990 and 2005; in contrast, the cancer mortality rate decreased between 14 to 23 percent for the other Hawai'i counties.

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Source: Hawai`i State Department of Health, Office of Health Status Monitoring, Vital Statistics Records.
Note: All U.S. rates and Hawai`i rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population. Because the method of coding causes of death changed in 1999, the data from 1990-1998 are not comparable to data from 1999-present.
 		Source: Hawai`i State Department of Health, Office of Health Status Monitoring, Vital Statistics Records.
Note: All U.S. rates and Hawai`i rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population. Because the method of coding causes of death changed in 1999, the data from 1990-1998 are not comparable to data from 1999-present.
Source: Hawai`i State Department of Health, Office of Health Status Monitoring, Vital Statistics Records.; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics Reports.
Note: All U.S. rates and Hawai`i rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population. Because the method of coding causes of death changed in 1999, the data from 1990-1998 are not comparable to data from 1999-present.