Spain: number of deaths due to hypertensive heart diseases by region 2017

This statistic presents the total number of deaths due to hypertensive heart diseases in Spain in 2017, by autonomous community. In that year, Andalusia was the autonomous community with the highest number of deaths due to this type of diseases, reaching approximately 21 hundred deaths. The number of deaths in Spain due to this type of accidents amounted to 12,560 deaths in 2017, which represents a marked increase over previous years.

Total number of deaths due to hypertensive heart diseases in Spain in 2017, by autonomous community

Characteristic	Number of deaths
Andalusia	2,059
Catalonia	2,050
Region of Valencia	1,431
Community of Madrid	1,209
Castile and Leon	1,010
Galicia	876
Basque Country	614
Castile-La Mancha	586
Canary Islands	477
Aragon	406
Asturias	400
Balearic Islands	353
Murcia	323
Extremadura	262
Navarre	170
Cantabria	154
La Rioja	109
Melilla	18
Ceuta	17

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December 2018

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Spain

Survey time period

2017

Supplementary notes

* Includes a number of complications of high blood pressure that affect the heart. While there are several definitions of hypertensive heart disease in the medical literature, the term is most widely used in the context of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding categories. The definition includes heart failure and other cardiac complications of hypertension when a causal relationship between the heart disease and hypertension is stated or implied on the death certificate.

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