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Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2011 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and other government agencies, brings together the most up-to-date statistics on heart disease, stroke, other vascular diseases, and their risk factors and presents them in its Heart Disease and Stroke Statistical Update. The Statistical Update is a valuable resource for researchers, clinicians, healthcare policy makers, media professionals, the lay public, and many others who seek the best national data available on disease morbidity and mortality and the risks, quality of care, medical procedures and operations, and costs associated with the management of these diseases in a single document. Indeed, since 1999, the Statistical Update has been cited more than 8700 times in the literature (including citations of all annual versions). In 2009 alone, the various Statistical Updates were cited ≈1600 times (data from ISI Web of Science). In recent years, the Statistical Update has undergone some major changes with the addition of new chapters and major updates across multiple areas. For this year’s edition, the Statistics Committee, which produces the document for the AHA, updated all of the current chapters with the most recent nationally representative data and inclusion of relevant articles from the literature over the past year and added a new chapter detailing how family history and genetics play a role in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Also, the 2011 Statistical Update is a major source for monitoring both cardiovascular health and disease in the population, with a focus on progress toward achievement of the AHA’s 2020 Impact Goals. Below are a few highlights from this year’s Update.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Stroke etiology
Heart disease
Heart Diseases
Hypercholesterolemia
Motor Activity
Article
Diabetes Complications
Young Adult
Physiology (medical)
Internal medicine
Epidemiology
medicine
Prevalence
Humans
Motor activity
Stroke
health care economics and organizations
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Metabolic Syndrome
business.industry
Incidence
Smoking
American Heart Association
Middle Aged
Overweight
medicine.disease
United States
Smoking epidemiology
Hypertension complications
Hypertension
Cardiology
Kidney Failure, Chronic
Female
Metabolic syndrome
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c122cfb3b1ba7a06699c66ef65c813a9