{"id":2080,"date":"2014-03-04T14:51:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2014-03-04T14:51:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:51:42","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-40-years-or-older-who-ever-had-a-cardiovascular-event-and-are-now-taking-low-dose-aspirin-to-prevent-or-control-heart-disease-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/03\/04\/2080\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 40 Years or Older Who Ever Had a Cardiovascular Event and Are Now Taking Low-Dose Aspirin to Prevent or Control Heart Disease in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/figures\/m6308qsf.gif\" width=\"370\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2012, 69.6% of adults aged 40 years or older who ever had a cardiovascular event (73.2% of men and 65.4% of women) were taking low-dose aspirin to prevent or control heart disease. Non-Hispanic white men (75.9%) were more likely to be taking low-dose aspirin compared with Hispanic (60.7%) and non-Hispanic black men (60.6%).\u00a0No statistically significant differences were oberved among women by race\/ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>For More Information:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6308a5.htm?s_cid=mm6308a5_e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6308a5.htm?s_cid=mm6308a5_e<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, 69.6% of adults aged 40 years or older who ever had a cardiovascular event (73.2% of men and 65.4% of women) were taking low-dose aspirin to prevent or control heart disease. Non-Hispanic white men (75.9%) were more likely to be taking low-dose aspirin compared with Hispanic (60.7%) and non-Hispanic black men (60.6%).\u00a0No statistically<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080"}],"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=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}