The Rise in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference on The Rise in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality took place online on February 5. Research Associates Anne Case and Angus Deaton of Princeton University organized the meeting, which was supported by a grant from the National Institute on Aging. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Anne Case, "International Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality: Has This Engine of Progress Ground to a Halt?"

* Renee Y. Hsia, University of California, San Francisco; Yu-Chu Shen, Naval Postgraduate School and NBER; and Harlan Krumholz, Yale University, "Racial Disparities in the Regionalization of Care for Patients with ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI)"

* David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER, "Understanding Differences in Heart Disease Trends by Education"

* Paul Novosad, Dartmouth College; Charlie Rafkin, MIT; and Sam Asher, Johns Hopkins University, "Mortality Change among Less-Educated Americans"

* Adam Leive, University of Virginia, and Christopher J. Ruhm, University...