Basic Summary for Cardiovascular diseases

Main name of condition: Cardiovascular diseases
Other names or spellings: Cardiovascular Disease, CVD

What is Cardiovascular diseases?
  Brief description of Cardiovascular diseases: Diseases of the heart or blood vessels including cerebrovascular diseases such as stroke.
  Parent types of Cardiovascular diseases: Blood vessel conditions, Heart conditions
  Organs Affected by Cardiovascular diseases: heart, blood vessels
  Types of Cardiovascular diseases: Heart disease, Stroke, Atherosclerosis, Coronary heart disease, Angina, Coronary artery disease, Hypertension, Heart failure

How many people get Cardiovascular diseases?
  Prevalance of Cardiovascular diseases: 61,800,000 cases in the USA (American Heart Association, 2004)
  Prevalance Rate of Cardiovascular diseases: approx 1 in 4 or 22.72% or 61.8 million people in USA [about data]
  Prevalance of Cardiovascular diseases: About 57 million Americans live with some form of cardiovascular disease, which causes more than 40% of all deaths in the United States; 950,000 Americans every year.¹

How serious is Cardiovascular diseases?
Deaths for Cardiovascular diseases: 945,836 deaths in the USA (American Heart Association, 2004)
Complications of Cardiovascular diseases: see complications of Cardiovascular diseases

What causes Cardiovascular diseases?
Causes of Cardiovascular diseases: see causes of Cardiovascular diseases
Risk factors for Cardiovascular diseases: see risk factors for Cardiovascular diseases

How is it treated?
  Treatments for Cardiovascular diseases: see treatments for Cardiovascular diseases
  Prevention of Cardiovascular diseases: see prevention of Cardiovascular diseases
  Research for Cardiovascular diseases: see research for Cardiovascular diseases

Society issues for Cardiovascular diseases
Costs of Cardiovascular diseases: $329.2 billion with $199.5b direct, $30.9b morbidity, $98.8b mortality (NHLBI 2002)
Costs of Cardiovascular diseases: Heart disease and stroke cost the nation almost $260 billion annually. ¹

Cost statistics for Cardiovascular diseases: The following are statistics from various sources about costs and Cardiovascular diseases:

$3.9 billion direct spending in Australia 1993-94(Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2003)
$26.3 billion was paid to Medicare beneficiaries for hospital expenses in the USA 1999 (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services –CMS, 2002)
$4,862 million in hospital costs in Canada 1993 Health Canada)
$867 million in physician costs in Canada 1993 (Health Canada)
$1,565 million in 1,565 costs in Canada 1993 (Health Canada)
$60 million in research costs in Canada 1993 (Health Canada)
$7,354 million in direct costs in Canada 1993 (Health Canada)
$425 million in short-term disability costs in Canada 1993 (Health Canada)
$4,502 million in long-term disability costs in Canada 1993 (Health Canada)
$7,440 million in mortality costs in Canada 1993 (Health Canada)
$4,862 million in indirect costs in Canada 1993 (Health Canada)
$19,722 million in Canada 1993 (Health Canada)
32,463 prescriptions for CVD in Canada 1998 (Intercontinental Medical Statistics Canada,1998)
9,230 diuretic prescriptions for CVD in Canada 1998 (Intercontinental Medical Statistics Canada,1998)
$19.3 billion in Canada 1998 (Surveillance and Risk Assessment Division, CCDP, Health Canada)

Hospitalizations for Cardiovascular diseases: 6,398,000 (NHLBI 1999)
Hospitalization statistics for Cardiovascular diseases: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Cardiovascular diseases:

1,729,863 patient days spent in public hospitals for procedures on cardiovascular system in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
156,584 admissions to private hospitals for procedures on cardiovascular system in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
190,128 admissions to public hospitals for procedures on cardiovascular system in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
22.7% of hospitalisations for procedures on cardiovascular system were single day in public hospitals in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
26.2% of hospitalisations for procedures on cardiovascular system were single day in private hospitals in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
821,642 patient days spent in private hospitals were for procedures on cardiovascular system in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)

Physician office visits for Cardiovascular diseases: 60,425,000 (NHLBI 1999)
Physician office visit statistics for Cardiovascular diseases: The following are statistics from various sources about physician office visits and Cardiovascular diseases:

Cardiovascular disease accounted for 11% of all physician visits in Australia 2002-03 (Britt et al. 2003, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)

Medical procedure statistics for Cardiovascular diseases: The following are statistics from various sources about medical procedures and Cardiovascular diseases:

25,127 bypass procedures were performed in the UK 2000-01 (Coronary Heart Disease Statistics, British Heart Foundation, 2003)
Cardiovascular disease resulted in 81,926 coronary angiograms in Australia 2001-02 (Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
Cardiovascular disease resulted in 16,275 coronary artery bypass grafts in Australia 2001-02 (Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
Cardiovascular disease resulted in 3,558 carotid endarterectomies in Australia 2001-02 (Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
Coronary stents were inserted into 91% of angioplasty procedures for cardiovascular disease in Australia 2001-02 (Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)

Footnotes:
1. excerpt from Facts About Cardiovascular Disease: CDC-OC

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