* more than one in three adults have some form of heart disease * About 8.4 million females alive today have a history of heart attack, angina pectoris (chest pain or discomfort caused by reduced blood supply to the heart muscle) or both. Of these, 3.5 million have a history of myocardial infarction (MI, or heart attack). * This year an estimated 515,000 women will have a new and recurrent MI and fatal CHD. About 370,000 will have a new and recurrent MI. * Approximately 9.1 million men alive today have some form of CHD * One in three adults has hypertension (High Blood Pressure) * Approximately 54 million women and 48 million men alive today have high blood cholesterol and other lipids. * Obesity, which is a chronic issue among children today that has been shown to be a factor in heart disease * The occurrence of High Blood Pressure among children is increasing. * Nearly 33 percent of cardiovascular disease deaths occur in people before the age of 75.
statistics courtesy of The American Heart Association
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