Each year heart disease is at the top of the list of the country's most serious health problems.

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Statistics show that cardiovascular disease, or heart disease, is America's leading cause of death. Consider these statistics released by the American Heart Association (AHA) at the end of 1998:

• At least 58.8 million people in this country suffer from some form of heart disease. More than 2,500 Americans die from heart disease each day.
  
• Every 20 seconds, a person in the United States has a heart attack.
  
• At least 250,000 people die of heart attacks each year before they reach a hospital.
  
• One person in four suffers from some form of cardiovascular disease, including:
  
  • high blood pressure - 50 million
  • coronary heart disease - 12 million
  • angina pectoris - 6 million
  • myocardial infarction - 7 million
  • stroke - 4.4 million
  • rheumatic heart disease / rheumatic fever - 1.8 million
  • congenital cardiovascular defects - 1 million
  • congestive heart failure - 4.6 million
    
    
• Almost 1 out of every 2.4 deaths are from cardiovascular disease.
• More than 2,600 deaths occur each day from cardiovascular disease -- 1 death every 33 seconds.
• Cardiovascular disease is the cause of more deaths than the next 7 causes of death combined.
• It is a myth that heart disease is a man's disease. In 1996, the number of male deaths from cardiovascular disease was 453,297 (47.3 percent). In 1996, the number of female deaths was 505,930 (52.7 percent) -- more than the next 16 causes of death combined.
• While it is true that men generally begin suffering from heart disease at a younger age than women, more than half the women alive today will die from cardiovascular disease. One in 3 men can expect to develop cardiovascular disease before the age of 60. For women of the same age, the odds are 1 in 10.
• The cost of cardiovascular disease in 1999 is estimated at $286.5 billion -- an increase of about $12 billion from last year.
• Stroke killed 159,942 people in 1996 -- on average a stroke death occurs every 3.3 minutes.
• Stroke is a leading cause of serious, long-term disability that accounts for more than half of all patients hospitalized for neurological disease, and stroke deaths have been increasing in recent years.
• About 400,000 new cases of congestive heart failure occur each year. Congestive heart failure deaths continue to increase dramatically.
• Heart disease is an equal opportunity killer; affecting both sexes, every race, and all ages.

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Foundation For Cardiac Research
c/o Claude Lowen, Chairman
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El Cerrito, CA 94530