You may have heard about the casualties and mortalities caused by the coronavirus and accidents around the world, but according to CDC heart disease is one of the leading causes of death across the world, and especially in the United States.
It is important to know how many people die from heart disease every year.
Heart disease can be deadly – it can hamper the quality of your life and actually make you suffer from a serious illness. A heart stroke can lead you to paralysis, memory loss, speech difficulty, and also emotional problems, etc.
In the United States, coronary heart disease is the most common reason behind deaths, 1 in 7 deaths is accounted for heart attack according to AHA.
It means that in every 40 seconds, an American suffers from a heart attack, and after every 60 seconds, more than one US citizen dies due to heart-related diseases.
What Heart disease exactly is?
The term ‘coronary disease’ is used to cover the diseases related to the heart affecting the blood vessels. It is important to know that all heart diseases are cardiovascular diseases, but not all cardiovascular diseases are related to heart.
Cardiovascular diseases weaken the strength of the heart including, peripheral artery blockage, clotting, and stroke-causing pain in limbs and leg cramping.
Most of the heart problems originate from the plague that accumulates on the walls of the arteries, hampering the flow of blood through the vessels. The blockage in blood vessels may lead to following diseases.
- Stroke
Stroke is caused when the blood does not reach the brain. The main reason for the stroke is clotting of blood – which may occur due to high blood pressure. According to an assessment, approximately 796,000 people in the US suffer from heart stroke every year.
- Heart Attacks
It occurs when a blood clot obstructs the blood flow through the portion of the heart preventing the blood to reach the heart muscle. If your heart doesn’t get enough blood for a longer time, then it is sure that the portion of the muscle could get affected, which may trigger a heart attack. According to the report from CDC, about 805,000 cases of heart attacks are reported each year in the United States.
- Arrhythmia
This unusual heart condition has many different forms – bradycardia (occurring slowly), tachycardia (occurring too fast), or irregular. In the United States, each year, 454,000 cases of arrhythmia are diagnosed.
- Heart valve issues
Each year, over 5 million Americans are diagnosed with issues related to heart valve – that may include – stenosis, regurgitation, and prolapse. Stenosis occurs when the blood vessels contract and do not open so that the blood flows through them easily.
On the other hand, when the valve does not shut completely and the blood leaks from the valve, you may be diagnosed with regurgitation. And if there is swelling in the valve – when it comes throwing the blood back towards the heart chamber – you would likely be suffering from prolapse.
- Heart failure
The deadliest repercussion of heart illness – also called congestive heart failure. It occurs when your heart struggles to pump out the blood from the vessels. In this case, the heart doesn’t stop working, but the pressure exerted makes the heart swell, and it becomes harder for the body to receive oxygen from the blood. The United States records about 550,000 heart failure cases each year.
How many people die from heart disease every year?
According to CDC, heart diseases cost around $200 billion to the United States every year including medications, hospital essentials, healthcare services, and most importantly in loss of productive force.
Between 2005-2015, the death rate from cardiovascular diseases decreased by 17%. However, the risk of contracting heart disease still prevails in senior citizens.
Being the most probable reason for chronic heart diseases, blood pressure has accounted for 30% deaths of adults in the United States. About 1.5 million people suffer from a heart attack every year due to the same reason. Blood pressure is one of the factors that elevates the risk of heart stroke. It is better to keep your cholesterol levels in check.
According to the CDC estimation, about half of the Americans are at the risk of suffering from high blood pressure due to anxiety and depression symptoms.
More than 800,000 heart patients lose their lives each year – and 160,0000 of them are under 65 years of age.
We can avoid ourselves suffering from heart disease by changing our lifestyle routine. Start consuming healthy diet, do simple exercises daily, think positive – there you have it – the recipe to avoid heart diseases.
It is important whenever you feel chest congestion, or pain in your jaws, do visit your physician to get yourself examined for heart-related problems.