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  • Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both women and men in the United States.
  • In 2002, 696,947 people died of heart disease (51 percent of them women). This was 29 percent of all U.S. deaths.
  • Worldwide, coronary heart disease kills more than 7 million people each year.
  • Studies among people with heart disease have shown that lowering high blood cholesterol and high blood pressure can reduce the risk of dying of heart disease, having a nonfatal heart attack and needing heart bypass surgery or angioplasty.
  • Studies among people without heart disease have shown that lowering high blood cholesterol and high blood pressure can reduce the risk of developing heart disease.
  • In 2003, about 37 percent of adults reported having two or more of six risk factors for heart disease and stroke (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, current smoking, physical inactivity and obesity).
  • Timely access to emergency cardiac care and survival is partly dependent on early recognition of heart attack symptoms and immediate action by calling emergency services. In a 2001 survey, most persons (95 percent) recognized chest pain as a heart attack symptom, but only 11 percent correctly classified all symptoms and knew to call 9–1–1 when someone was having a heart attack.
  • In 2006, heart disease is projected to cost more than $258 billion, including health care services, medications and lost productivity.


Published: January 29, 2008
Source: National Center for Health Statistics
Writer: Elizabeth Todd Bartholomew, MA, APR


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