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Heart Attack and Angina Statistics
by Kathryn Schleich
Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) causes both heart attacks and angina. In fact, the symptoms for both may be the same. The statistics for 2006 (the most recent available) indicate that CHD is the leading cause of death in America. Here are some other important statistics also attributable to CHD every year.
About 425,425 deaths in the United States (or about one in six) are attributable to Coronary Heart Disease.
Each year there are approximately 1,255,000 new and recurrent coronary attacks. (Information obtained from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institutes Atherosclerotic Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study and Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS). Of that, about 34 percent of people experiencing a coronary attack in a given year die from it.
Also each year 17,600,000 people are victims of angina (which is most often chest pain due to coronary heart disease and other forms of CHD) and are still living. Broken down by sex, that’s 9,200,000 men and 8,400,000 women having attacks every year. • In the years from 1996 to 2006, the death rate from coronary heart disease declined 34 percent, but the actual death rate from CHD declined only 19 percent
Current estimates are that 10,200,000 people in the United States suffer from angina.Estimated new cases of stable angina are 500,000 cases each year. (Stable Angina is when the heart is working harder than usual. A person can also usually predict when stable angina will occur and it follows a predictable pattern).
The estimated frequency of angina in women age 20 and older was 4.5% for non-Hispanic white women, 5.4 for non-Hispanic black women, and 4.8% for Mexican-American women.
Among adults 20 years and older, the estimated frequency of coronary heart disease for non-Hispanic whites is 9.4% for men and 6.9% for women; for non-Hispanic blacks, 7.8% for men, and 7.8% for women; and for Mexican-Americans, 5.3% men and 6.6% for women.**Information taken from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, 2003-2006), National Center for Health Statistics and NHLBI and the American Heart Association.
An avid believer in exercise and healthy eating, Kathryn Schleich experienced a serious heart attack in 2009 at the age of 51. Through that experience she has made it her mission to educate heart attack survivors, stroke survivors, and those wishing to maintain or lose weight. Schleich is also a nationally published author and can be contacted at kathrynschlei777@yahoo.com. You may also visit her web site at: www.women-write.com. © Kathryn Schleich 2010
