{"id":2047,"date":"2014-02-25T13:36:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T16:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2014-02-25T13:36:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T16:36:22","slug":"american-heart-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/02\/25\/2047\/","title":{"rendered":"American Heart Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height:1.5em\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/2014\/02\/25\/american-heart-month\/2013-2_heart\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2072\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2072\" alt=\"2013-2_heart\" src=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/2013-2_heart.jpg\" width=\"241\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a>In honor of <\/span><a style=\"line-height:1.5em\" title=\"February is American Heart Month\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/Features\/HeartMonth\/\">A<\/a><a style=\"line-height:1.5em\" title=\"February is American Heart Month\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/Features\/HeartMonth\/\">merican Heart Month<\/a><span style=\"line-height:1.5em\">, it is important to note that almost\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"line-height:1.5em\" title=\"Deaths: Final Data for 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr61\/nvsr61_04.pdf\">600,000 people\u00a0die of heart disease<\/a><span style=\"line-height:1.5em\"> in the United States every year\u2013that\u2019s\u00a01 in every 4 deaths. \u00a0Heart disease is the leading cause of death in\u00a0the United States for both men and women,\u00a0accounting for approximately 307,000 deaths\u00a0for men and 290,000 deaths for women in\u00a02010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Respondent-reported prevalence of heart disease, cancer, and stroke among adults aged 18 and over, by selected characteristics: United States, average annual, selected years 1997\u20131998 through 2010\u20132011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/hus\/contents2012.htm#044\">During 2000\u20132001 through\u00a02010\u20132011<\/a>, the prevalence of lifetime\u00a0respondent-reported heart disease among\u00a0adults aged 18\u201354 was similar for men and\u00a0women. Among adults aged 55 and over, heart\u00a0disease prevalence was higher for men than for\u00a0of men aged 75 and over reported having\u00a0ever been told by a physician they had heart\u00a0disease, compared with nearly one-third (31%)\u00a0of women in the same age group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Deaths: Final Data for 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr61\/nvsr61_04.pdf\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr61\/nvsr61_04.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Heart Disease Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/heartdisease\/facts.htm\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/heartdisease\/facts.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"February is American Heart Month\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/Features\/HeartMonth\/\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/Features\/HeartMonth\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of American Heart Month, it is important to note that almost\u00a0600,000 people\u00a0die of heart disease in the United States every year\u2013that\u2019s\u00a01 in every 4 deaths. \u00a0Heart disease is the leading cause of death in\u00a0the United States for both men and women,\u00a0accounting for approximately 307,000 deaths\u00a0for men and 290,000 deaths for women in\u00a02010. During<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28877],"tags":[57474,59478,5747,64173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}