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Hello and welcome to our website! We find that most people searching for statistics about heart disease are researching heart disease either for the purpose of education (in other words, your term paper is due!) or to post facts about heart disease to raise the awareness. You might say that education, raising awareness and prevention of heart disease is our motivation for creating this website. As we find statistics from the internet, we will post them and their sources. As we collect more and more statistics, we will develop a downloadable database for our readers to use so that they can build graphs, charts, and tables. We love to hear from our readers. Please contact us any time with ideas or statistics that you may want us to organize:
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Why heart disease? Very simple, heart disease is the leading killer around the world.
Statistics from the Center for Disease Control (CDC 2006):
Leading Causes of Death in the United States:
- Heart disease: 631,636
- Cancer: 559,888
- Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 137,119
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,583
- Accidents (unintentional injuries): 121,599
- Diabetes: 72,449
- Alzheimer's disease: 72,432
- Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,326
- Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,344
- Septicemia: 34,234
As we collect data, we intend to present it to you in user friendly formats to facilitate your research and data collection efforts about heart disease. We believe that spreading the word about the what, when, where and how will go a long way to discovering "why". Once we know why, we can start solving the problem. Many groups are already doing a great job publishing statistics and promoting awareness. We're just going to do our best to make a small contribution to the improvement of cardiovascular health around the world. |