Heart Disease Quick Facts -
- In 2002, 696,947 people died of heart disease (51% of them women). This was 29% of all U.S. deaths. The age-adjusted death rate was 241 per 100,000 population.
- Heart disease crude death rates per 100,000 population for the five largest U.S. racial/ethnic groups are as follows: Hispanics, 72; Asians and Pacific Islanders, 78; American Indians, 80; blacks, 206; and whites, 259.
- Coronary heart disease is the principal type of heart disease. There were 494,392 people that died from coronary heart disease in 2002. That is about 71% of all heart disease deaths.
- Risk factors for heart disease among adults (for years 1999–2002 unless noted):
Percentage of persons aged 20 years and older with hypertension or taking hypertension medications: 30.2%
Percentage of persons aged 20 years and older with high blood cholesterol: 17.3%
Percentage of persons aged 20 years and older with physician-diagnosed diabetes: 6.5%Percentage of persons aged 20 years and older who are obese: 30.5%
Percentage of adults aged 18 years and older who are current cigarette smokers (2003): 21.6%
Percentage of adults aged 18 years and older who engage in no leisure-time physical activity (2003): 37.6%
- In 2003, approximately 37% 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).
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Last Update:4/8/2008 10:24:15 AM
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