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Heart disease is a word used to describe many different conditions affecting the heart or blood vessels.
1) There are many cardiovascular diseases involving the blood vessels. They are known as vascular diseases:
2) There are also many cardiovascular diseases that involve the heart.
Approximately 600,000 people die from heart disease in the United States every year, according to the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention (CDC). It’s a leading cause of death in both men and women. Coronary artery disease and stroke account for 80% of CVD deaths in males and 75% of CVD deaths in females.[1] Disease onset is typically seven to ten years earlier in men as compared to women.[11]
In 2008, 30% of all global death is attributed to cardiovascular diseases. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally.[1] This is true in all areas of the world except Africa.[1] Together they resulted in 17.3 million deaths (31.5%) in 2013 up from 12.3 million (25.8%) in 1990.[2] Deaths, at a given age, from CVD are more common and have been increasing in much of the developing world, while rates have declined in most of the developed world since the 1970s.[8][9] Most cardiovascular disease affects older adults. In the United States 11% of people between 20 and 40 have CVD, while 37% between 40 and 60, 71% of people between 60 and 80, and 85% of people over 80 have CVD.[10] The average age of death from coronary artery disease in the developed world is around 80 while it is around 68 in the developing world.[8]
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