Urban-Rural Disparities in Pulmonary Hypertension-Related Mortality Between 2004 and 2019: A Call to Improve Access to Specialty Care Centers for Rural Residents in the United States.

As rural-urban pulmonary hypertension (PH)-related mortality trends have not been reported past 2011, it is important to update the literature to provide guidance for necessary initiatives geared at minimizing barriers to social determinants of health. We extracted PH-related data between 2004 and 2019 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-Ranging OnLine Data for Epidemiologic Research (CDC WONDER). Crude-mortality rate and age-adjusted mortality rate (AAMR) were determined.