{"id":417,"date":"2009-02-25T17:42:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T21:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2009-02-25T17:42:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T21:42:46","slug":"a-brief-look-at-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2009\/02\/25\/417\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief look at heart disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">As a farewell to &#8220;American Heart Month,&#8221; here&#8217;s a brief synopsis of why the heart and its health affects so many of us:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">Heart disease is the nation\u2019s <\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:verdana\">leading cause of death<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">, responsible for 629,191 deaths in 2006 (<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;color:#0000ff;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;color:#0000ff;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"color:#333333\">National Vital Statistics System<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">, 2006).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">Heart disease is the nation\u2019s <\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">leading diagnosis for hospitalization<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">, at 4.2 million (<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;color:#0000ff;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;color:#0000ff;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"color:#333333\">National Hospital Discharge Survey<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">, 2006).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">Over <\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">24 million visits to physician offices <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">in 2006 resulted in a diagnoses of heart disease (<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;color:#0000ff;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;color:#0000ff;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"color:#333333\">National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">, 2006).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">About 11% of U.S. adults have ever been <\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">told by a doctor or other health professional they had heart disease <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">(<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">National Health Interview Survey<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"color:#333333\">,<\/span> 2007).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">About one in six Americans aged 20 years and over <strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">has elevated blood pressure <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">and one in four <\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">has hypertension <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">(<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;color:#0000ff;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;color:#0000ff;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"color:#333333\">National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"color:#333333\">,<\/span> 2001-2004).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a farewell to &#8220;American Heart Month,&#8221; here&#8217;s a brief synopsis of why the heart and its health affects so many of us: Heart disease is the nation\u2019s leading cause of death, responsible for 629,191 deaths in 2006 (National Vital Statistics System, 2006). 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