"Figure 3: Age-standardised avoidable mortality rates for cardiovascular diseases by sex","" "England, 2001 to 2016","" "","" "Notes","1. Figures are for deaths registered in each calendar year. 2. Figures for England exclude deaths of non-residents. 3. Age-standardised mortality rates are expressed per 100,000 population and standardised to the 2013 European Standard Population. Age-standardised mortality rates are used to allow comparison between populations which may contain different proportions of people of different ages. 4. Deprivation deciles are based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) which is the official measure of relative deprivation. IMD 2004 was used for the data years 2001 to 2005, IMD 2007 was used for years 2006 to 2008, IMD 2010 was used for years 2009 to 2013 and IMD 2015 was used for years 2014 to 2016. 5. Decile 1 represents the most deprived and decile 10 represents the least deprived." "Unit","Age-standardised mortality rates" "","" "Year","2001","2010","2016" "Males - Decile 1","301.5","190.3","155.4" "Males - Decile 10","109.6","60.1","44.0" "Females - Decile 1","142.9","85.4","70.0" "Females - Decile 10","47.4","24.1","17.2"