Statistics About Heart Disease -
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The following statistics are taken from the 2010 American Heart Association's update, and from a website called Statistics about heart disease.
Most of the figures are given for 2006 since that is the last year for which all the statistics are available.
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- These statistics include the following forms of heart disease: high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, heart failure, stroke, and congenital cardiovascular defects.
- It is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. This applies to all ethnic groups except for Asians and Pacific islanders. Even in this group cancer as a cause of death is only one or two percentage points higher.
- There are over eighty-one million American adults suffering with some form of heart disease currently.
- If you are a man between the ages of thirty-five to forty-four your chances of having a major cardiovascular event, that is a heart attack or stroke, are three out of a thousand, but by the time you are between the ages of eighty-five and ninety four, they have risen to seventy-four out of a thousand. Women have about the same chances, but they occur ten years later for women.
- The Framingham Heart Study data shows that the lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease is 2 in 3 for a man and over one in two for women at forty years of age.
- Cardiovascular disease of some type was the underlying cause for over a third of all deaths in 2006.
- Someone dies of heart disease in the U.S. on the average of one every thirty-eight seconds! That is two deaths in less than a minute and a half.
- More people die from heart disease each year than from accidents, cancer, and chronic lower respiratory disease combined.
- Before age 75 men have more heart attacks and women have more strokes.
- In 2006 over 150,000 Americans under the age of sixty-five died of Cardiovascular diseases.
- The direct and indirect costs for cardiovascular diseases in 2010 are estimated to be over 503 billion dollars
Statistics About Heart Disease -Fascinating, but Impersonal
It is interesting to read statistics, but since they are so impersonal, they are also easy to ignore.Nonetheless, you ignore these statistics at your own peril. It is very important to realize that ignoring these statistics greatly heightens the chance that you'll contribute to these statistics in the future.
On the other hand, if you are willing to take responsibility for your own health, you can greatly lessen the chances that you'll suffer from heart disease in the future.
Although not all risk factors for heart disease are under our control, many are.
For more information about which supplements keep your heart healthy read the cardiovascular fitness page. In addition the page on ways to prevent heart disease also provides valuable information.
If you are already struggling with heart disease, realize that the same nutrients that help a healthy person avoid heart disease may be able to help you heal so your heart disease doesn't kill or permanently disable you.
Statistics About Heart Disease - Paralyzing or Motivating
Or whether you let these statistics motivate you to make the changes necessary to lessen your chances of dying from this modern day epidemic.
I hope and pray you'll allow them to motivate you to improve your health and lower your risks for heart disease.
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