A Few Interesting Statistics and Facts

Did You Know?

Every 34 seconds a person in the United States dies from heart disease.

More than 2,500 Americans die from heart disease each day.

Every 20 seconds, a person in the United States has a heart attack.

At least 250,000 people die of heart attacks each year before they reach a hospital.

Studies show that under-educated people are more likely to suffer heart attacks.

Almost 6 million hospitalizations each year (in the United States) are due to cardiovascular disease.

Since 1900, Cardio Vascular Disease has been the number 1 killer in the United States for every year but 1918.

Every 33 seconds, a person dies from Cardiovascular Disease in the United States.

Research has proved that smoking cigarettes is a leading cause and accelerator of heart disease. Smoking causes or accelerates heart disease by many different mechanisms.

Smoking speeds up the progression of atherosclerosis, alters lipid profile, increases heart muscle oxygen demand by 10%, reduces coronary artery blood flow due to adrenaline release, and alters the clotting mechanism with aggregation of blood platelets, just to name a few.

(Mama's Health. Com)