Prevalence and Incidence of Heart disease

Prevalance of Heart disease:

22 million adults in the US 2000 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) ... see also overview of Heart disease.

Prevalance Rate:

approx 1 in 12 or 8.09% or 22 million people in USA [Source statistic for calcuation: "22 million adults in the US 2000 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)" -- see also general information about data sources]

Prevalance of types of Heart disease:

For details see prevalence of types of Heart disease analysis; summary of available prevalence data:

• heart attack: 7.5 million people with AMI (NHLBI)
• high blood pressure: 50 million Americans (NHLBI); 217 per 1000 (NHIS95)
• Ischemic heart disease: 68 per 1000 (NHIS95)
• Heart rhythm disorders: 53 per 1000 (NHIS95: heart rhythm disorders); 21 per 1000 (NHIS95: heart murmurs)
• Tachycardia: 16 per 1000 (NHIS95)
• more types of Heart disease...»

Heart disease Prevalence: Book Excerpts

• Causes and incidence - Cardiac tamponade
• Causes and incidence - Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

Incidence of types of Heart disease:

For details see incidence of types of Heart disease analysis; summary of available incidence by type data:

• heart attack: 1.25 million annually USA (NHLBI); 1.1 million with 650,000 new events and 450,000 recurrences.
• rheumatic heart disease: 194 annual cases in Victoria 1996 (DHS-VIC)
• more types of Heart disease...»

Prevelance of Heart disease discussion:

Facts About Heart Disease and Women: NHLBI (Excerpt)

One in ten American women ages 45 to 64 has some form of heart disease. That increases to one in five for women over age 65. (Source: excerpt from Facts About Heart Disease and Women: NHLBI)

NHLBI Heart Disease & Women Are You At Risk: NHLBI (Excerpt)

One in ten American women 45 to 64 years of age has some form of heart disease, and this increases to one in four women over 65. Heart disease is the number one killer of American women. (Source: excerpt from NHLBI Heart Disease & Women Are You At Risk: NHLBI)

Prevelance statistics for Heart disease:

The following statistics relate to the prevalence of Heart disease:

• 155 per 1000 (NHIS95)
• 9 million American women (NHLBI)
• 22.3 million cases per year of heart disease in the USA 1994 (US Government Statistics)
• 23.0 million noninstitutionalised people have a diagnosed heart disease in the US 2001(Summary Statistics for US Adults, 2001, NCHS, CDC)
• 11.5% of noninstitutionalised people have a diagnosed heart disease in the US 2001(Summary Statistics for US Adults, 2001, NCHS, CDC)
• 147,600 home health care patients had heart disease as a primary diagnosis in the US 2000 (National Home and Hospice Care Survey, NCHS, CDC)
• 10.9% of home health care patients had heart disease as a primary diagnosis in the US 2000 (National Home and Hospice Care Survey, NCHS, CDC)
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Death statistics for Heart disease:

The following statistics relate to deaths and Heart disease:

• 700,142 deaths in the USA 2001 (National Center for Health Statistics, 2001)
• 245.8 deaths per 100,000 in the USA 2001 (National Center for Health Statistics, 2001)
• Number 1 cause of death in the USA 2001 (National Center for Health Statistics, 2001)
• 21% of all hospital inpatient deaths in the USA 2000 (National Hospital Discharge Survey, 2000)
• 700,142 people died from heart disease each year in the US 2001 (Deaths: Final Data for 2001, NCHS, CDC)
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Prevalence/Incidence of Heart disease: Online Medical Books

16 MEDICAL BOOKS ONLINE! Review excerpts from medical books online, free, without registration, for more information about the prevalence and/or incidence of Heart disease.

Cardiac tamponade: Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))

Increased intrapericardial pressure and cardiac tamponade may be idiopathic (Dressler’s syndrome) or may result from:

❑ effusion (in cancer, bacterial infections, tuberculosis and, rarely, acute rheumatic fever)

❑ hemorrhage from trauma (such as gunshot or stab wounds of the chest and perforation by catheter during cardiac or central venous catheterization or postcardiac surgery)

❑ hemorrhage from nontraumatic causes (such as rupture of the heart or great vessels or anticoagulant therapy in a patient with pericarditis)

❑ acute myocardial infarction (MI)

❑ end stage lung cancer

❑ heart tumors

❑ radiation therapy

❑ hypothyroidism

❑ systemic lupus erythematosus

❑ uremia.

Cardiac tamponade occurs in 2 of every 10,000 people.

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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005

Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))

Rheumatic fever appears to be a hypersensitivity reaction to a group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal infection, in which antibodies manufactured to combat streptococci react and produce characteristic lesions at specific tissue sites, especially in the heart and joints. Because very few persons (3%) with streptococcal infections ever contract rheumatic fever, altered host resistance must be involved in its development or recurrence. Although rheumatic fever tends to be familial, this may merely reflect contributing environmental factors. For example, in lower socioeconomic groups, incidence is highest in children between ages 5 and 15, probably as a result of malnutrition and crowded living conditions. This disease strikes generally during cool, damp weather in the winter and early spring. In the United States, it’s most common in the northern states.

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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005

About prevalence and incidence statistics:

The term 'prevalence' of Heart disease usually refers to the estimated population of people who are managing Heart disease at any given time. The term 'incidence' of Heart disease refers to the annual diagnosis rate, or the number of new cases of Heart disease diagnosed each year. Hence, these two statistics types can differ: a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence, but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence. For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.

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