Global burden of cardiovascular diseases and risks, 1990-2022

[[abstract]]Age-standardized CVD mortality rates among countries in Western Sub-Saharan Africa ranged from 238.1 to 449.7 per 100,000 in 2022; a 1.9 fold difference. CVD mortality decreased by 19.9% from 1990 to 2022. Of the 21 regions, Western Sub-Saharan Africa ranked 9th in 1990 and 8th in 2022 for age-standardized CVD mortality. After ischemic heart disease and all stroke subtypes, hypertensive heart disease had the highest age-standardized DALYs in 2022 at 593.8 per 100,000. High systolic blood pressure had the largest number of attributable age-standardized CVD DALYs at 3,330.4 per 100,00