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Coronary heart disease or heart attack: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Coronary heart disease or heart attack. All 49 states and District of Columbia with data in E-cigarettes, heavy drinking, heart and kidney disease by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-30

Download full table CSV Source: CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (opens in a new tab)

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 4.5 %
RI 7.3 %
DE 7.6 %
CT 6.9 %
NJ 6.3 %
MD 5.9 %
MA 5.7 %
VT 7.3 %
NH 6.5 %

Lowest: 4.4 to 6.2 %
Group 2: 6.2 to 6.7 %
Group 3: 6.7 to 7.1 %
Group 4: 7.1 to 8.2 %
Highest: 8.2 to 11 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	West Virginia	11
2	Kentucky	10
3	Arkansas	9.2
4	Alabama	8.8
4	Maine	8.8
4	Oklahoma	8.8
7	Louisiana	8.6
8	Missouri	8.4
9	Indiana	8.2
9	Mississippi	8.2
11	Ohio	8
11	South Carolina	8
13	Michigan	7.9
14	Pennsylvania	7.7
15	Delaware	7.6
16	Florida	7.3
16	Nevada	7.3
16	Rhode Island	7.3
16	Vermont	7.3
20	Arizona	7.1
20	Georgia	7.1
20	Iowa	7.1
23	Kansas	7
23	Nebraska	7
23	Wisconsin	7
23	Wyoming	7
27	Connecticut	6.9
28	North Dakota	6.8
29	Montana	6.7
29	Oregon	6.7
31	Virginia	6.6
32	Illinois	6.5
32	Minnesota	6.5
32	New Hampshire	6.5
32	New York	6.5
32	South Dakota	6.5
37	New Jersey	6.3
37	New Mexico	6.3
39	Alaska	6.2
39	Hawaii	6.2
39	North Carolina	6.2
42	Texas	6
43	Maryland	5.9
44	Idaho	5.7
44	Massachusetts	5.7
46	Colorado	5.6
47	Washington	5.4
48	California	5.3
49	District of Columbia	4.5
50	Utah	4.4

Source: CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, BRFSS Prevalence Data (2011 to present), data.cdc.gov dataset dttw-5yxu. Reference period: 2024.

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U.S. states ranked by coronary heart disease or heart attack (2024). Data: CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), BRFSS Prevalence Data (2011 to present), data.cdc.gov dataset dttw-5yxu; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-30. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-coronary-heart-disease-or-heart-attack/

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