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Posted on July 8, 2009 in Heart Disease
Heart disease is a major cause of death among Americans and world over. Stress, fast foods and modern living styles negatively impact a person’s health. Stress causes heart disease and obesity which is caused due to bad food habits is a major cause to cardiovascular diseases and other heart problems.
Exercise, relaxation and keeping a positive attitude helps one reduce the chances of developing heart disease. Let us have a look how heart disease affects people:
How many deaths occur due to heart disease?
- A person’s death occurs every 34 seconds due to heart disease in the United States.
- In the US a person dies of heart attack every 20 seconds.
- About 2,500 American die due to heart attacks.
- Around 250,000 die due to heart attack before they reach a hospital in the US.
- Those below the average level of education suffer from heart attacks more.
- The following countries are known for higher death rates due to heart disease. Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the Soviet Union.
- About 6 million hospitalizations take place each year in the US on account of cardiovascular disease.
- Every 33 seconds a death occurs due to cardiovascular disease in the US.
- Since 1900 onwards, the number 1 killer has been cardiovascular disease in the US except 1918.
- Men tend to suffer heart attacks 10 years earlier in life as compared to women.
- Over 1,000 individuals die of sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS) in the US. Most of them are either of middle age or are elderly people.
- About 4 % of sudden cardiac death go unexplained. After all, results from postmortem indicate normal heart functioning before death.
- A new study conducted by American and British scientists highlights the fact that many young women are dying due to heart disease.
- In the UK about 101,000 deaths occur due to coronary heart disease.
- By 2010 heart disease will affect the lives of 40 million Americans of the age 65 years and above.
- Nearly 28% of adult Americans have two or more heart disease risk factors. It is up by 24 % since 1991.
Thus, heart disease is a major health problem affecting many Americans as well as those living in other parts of the world. Several deaths are occurring due to it. A healthy lifestyle can prevent such deaths.
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May 25th, 2010 at 12:50 am
what about the pople that die from the food they eat that is hard on there heart and there body? what is the number of deaths for them?