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Diseases » Heart attack » Summary

What is Heart attack?

Contents

Heart attack: Introduction
Types of Heart attack
Prognosis
Complications
Prevalence
Other names for Heart attack
Who gets Heart attack?
What causes Heart attack?
What are the symptoms of Heart attack?
Organs Affected by Heart attack
How is it treated?
Society issues for Heart attack
Heart attack: Introduction

What is Heart attack?

Heart attack: Serious and often fatal acute heart condition.
Heart attack: Presence of a thrombus in a coronary artery, often causing a myocardial infarction.
Source - Diseases Database
Heart attack: a sudden severe instance of abnormal heart function.
Source - WordNet 2.1

Heart attack: Introduction

Types of Heart attack:

Broader types of Heart attack:

How many people get Heart attack?

Prevalance of Heart attack: 7.5 million people with AMI (NHLBI)
Prevalance Rate of Heart attack: approx 1 in 36 or 2.76% or 7.5 million people in USA [about data]
Incidence (annual) of Heart attack: 1.25 million annually USA (NHLBI); 1.1 million with 650,000 new events and 450,000 recurrences.
Incidence Rate of Heart attack: approx 1 in 217 or 0.46% or 1.2 million people in USA [about data]
Incidence of Heart attack: Each year, about 1.1 million Americans suffer a heart attack. (Source: excerpt from Heart Attacks: NHLBI)

Who gets Heart attack?

Patient Profile for Heart attack: Typically men over 45 and women over 50. However can occur in younger adults.

How serious is Heart attack?

Complications of Heart attack: see complications of Heart attack
1-year survival rate for Heart attack: 24 of 25 will survive if they survive the attack (1 in 25 dies within a year)
Deaths for Heart attack: 459,841 deaths in 1998 (NHLBI); 199,154 deaths for AMI reported in USA 1999 (NVSR Sep 2001)

What causes Heart attack?

Causes of Heart attack: see causes of Heart attack
Risk factors for Heart attack: see risk factors for Heart attack

What are the symptoms of Heart attack?

Symptoms of Heart attack: see symptoms of Heart attack

Complications of Heart attack: see complications of Heart attack

Heart attack: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Heart attack.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Heart attack.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Heart attack: see treatments for Heart attack
Prevention of Heart attack: see prevention of Heart attack
Research for Heart attack: see research for Heart attack

Society issues for Heart attack

Hospitalizations for Heart attack: 829,000 (NHLBI 1999)

Hospitalization statistics for Heart attack: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Heart attack:

195 per 100,000 rate for Acute Myocardial Infarction hospitalizations in Canada 1995 Surveillance on-line, 1998 LCDC, Health Canada)
1.033% (105,476) of hospital consultant episodes were for acute myocardial infarction in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
66% of hospital consultant episodes for acute myocardial infarction required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
62% of hospital consultant episodes for acute myocardial infarction were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
38% of hospital consultant episodes for acute myocardial infarction were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
93% of hospital consultant episodes for acute myocardial infarction required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
9.5 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for acute myocardial infarction in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Physician office visits for Heart attack: 133,000 physician visits for AMI (NHLBI 1999); 4,661,000 ED visits in the USA for chest pain
Medical procedure statistics for Heart attack: The following are statistics from various sources about medical procedures and Heart attack:

2,200 people undergo bypass surgery or angioplasty in the US (W.H. Howard, M.D., M.S., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.P., How to protect your heart from your doctor)
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