ABSTRACT
This chapter examines patterns of deaths from Coronary heart disease (CHD) and cerebrovascular disease in age groups 45–54, 55–64, and 65–74 over the Donald Trump-voting states and over the Clinton-voting states. CHD and cerebrovascular disease conjure up stereotypical pictures of elderly people stricken because of age. Chronic conditions of aging processes, these diseases loom large as sources of mortality. Stroke also involves the aging processes of either blockage of brain blood vessels by plaque or hardening of arteries from acute blood pressure spikes or chronic high blood pressure. Mortality from stroke in the youngest age range associates with a dozen socioeconomic factors in our database in the Trump states and with four in the Clinton states. In the 45–54 age range, CHD and stroke mortality rates associate with each other with an R-square of 0.36 in the Trump states but have no association in the Clinton.
