Some interesting facts...
- Over the past 40 years, heart disease mortality in Iowa has dropped from 374 deaths per 100,000 population to 230.
- Top ten mortalities in Iowa, as a percent of all deaths 2016-2020. Heart Disease and Cancer account for nearly half.
- In the 1980s, 6 out of every 100,000 people died of a fall. Today, that number has almost tripled to 18.