Deaths from heart failure: using coarsened exact matching to correct cause-of-death statistics

Table 2 Variables on which death records were matched, base specification.

Variable	US	Mexico	Brazil
Age	10-year intervals from age 20 to 49	10-year intervals from age 20 to 49	10-year intervals from age 20 to 49
	5-year intervals from 50-84	5-year intervals from 50-84	5-year intervals from 50-84
	Over 85	Over 85	Over 85
Sex	Male/Female	Male/Female	Male/Female
Death Location	In a clinic or hospital	In a clinic or hospital	In a clinic or hospital
	All other locations	All other locations	All other locations
Region	9 regions	5 regions	5 regions
Urban/rural	Urban/Rural	Urban/Rural	Urban/Rural
Education	Less than high school	Less than primary	None
	At least high school	At least primary	1-7 years
	4-year college or more	Secondary or more	More than 7 years
Race	White
	Other
	Black
Hispanic	Hispanic
	Non-Hispanic
Occupation		Professional/technical
		Informal economy
Health Insurance System		IMSS
		Other public or private
		Seguro popular/none

IMSS: Mexican Social Security Institute, which provides health insurance to formal-sector workers. Seguro popular: government-subsidized health insurance scheme for the uninsured.

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