Percentage of Adults Aged ≥18 Years with Diagnosed Heart Disease, by Urbanization Level and Age Group -- National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2020Woodall, Ashley M.MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
Cardiovascular diseases remain the biggest cause of deaths worldwide, though over the last two decades, cardiovascular mortality rates have declined in many high-income countries but have increased at an astonishingly fast rate in low- and middle-income countries. The percentage of premature deaths fr...
Rheumatic heart disease(RHD) is a neglected chronic disease primarily affecting the poorest people worldwide and is the most common form of acquired heart disease among children and young adults in low-income and middle-income countries. RHD affects an estimated 33 million people worldwide byGloba...
Assuming all otherrisk factorsremained unchanged, 69.2% of ischaemic heart disease deaths worldwide could be prevented if healthier diets were adopted. Meanwhile, 54.4% of these deaths could be avoided ifsystolic blood pressurewas kept at 110-115 mmHg, while 41.9% of deaths could be stopped if ...
International collaboration to improve cardiovascular health9 will need to continue to reduce the burden of CVD worldwide. Reported by: Cardiovascular Health Br, Div of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC. References 1. National ...
Furthermore, the findings of this study should be cautiously extrapolated to other countries, as they depend on factors such as population socioeconomic status, disease distribution, the employed method of SCB assessment, and the healthcare system in place. Conclusion Most of the participants in ...
To assess our hypotheses, we embraced the challenge of identifying reliable biomarkers for heart disease and stroke, which, despite being the leading cause of death worldwide and decades of research, lacks reliable biomarkers and risk stratification tools. We showed that raw R-R interval data and...
Early research found a large portion of deaths caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were related to cardiovascular problems and heart damage was prevalent in a percentage of people hospitalized for the virus. From triggering blood clots in severe cases, to caus...
International Classification of Disease 10 DSP: Disease Surveillance Point APC: Annual Percentage Change AAPC: Average Annual Percentage Change References Gouvinhas C, Severo M, Azevedo A, Lunet N. Worldwide patterns of ischemic heart disease mortality from 1980 to 2010. Int J Cardiol. 2014...
Nevertheless, patients with a higher percentage of moderate activity performed better within their age group. This also underlines that anthropometric and demographic data alone cannot accurately predict BMI, age and gender-specific 6-minute walk test outcomes in a cohort of patients with heart disease...