Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Do you have a source for those numbers?
1 in 3 seems really high?
And how does America define a CVD?
I'm talking to a friend who is doing his PhD in cardiovascular surgery at the provincial capital and he says that China and Pakistan (his nation ) classify it differently...
I never thought of asthma
That's really common over here... Especially in the larger cities...
Edit: Please note that the numbers I posted came from one site...
Do you have a source for those numbers? br br 1 ... (
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According to the study from the American Heart Association, 121.5 million Americans, or about 48.5 percent, dealt with heart or blood vessel disease as of 2016
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/01/31/heart-disease-nearly-half-u-s-adults-have-it-study-finds/2729955002/Heart Disease in the United States
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States.1
One person dies every 37 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease.1
About 647,000 Americans die from heart disease each year—that’s 1 in every 4 deaths.2,3
Heart disease costs the United States about $219 billion each year from 2014 to 2015.3 This includes the cost of health care services, medicines, and lost productivity due to death.
C****ary Artery Disease
C****ary heart disease is the most common type of heart disease, k*****g 365,914 people in 2017.2
About 18.2 million adults age 20 and older have CAD (about 6.7%).3
About 2 in 10 deaths from CAD happen in adults less than 65 years old.2
Early Action Is Important for Heart Attack
Know the warning signs and symptoms of a heart attack.
Heart Attack
In the United States, someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds.3
Every year, about 805,000 Americans have a heart attack.3 Of these,
605,000 are a first heart attack
200,000 happen to people who have already had a heart attack3
About 1 in 5 heart attacks is silent—the damage is done, but the person is not aware of it.
https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm