Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics--2009 Update. A Report From the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee

Each year, the American Heart Association, 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. This year’s edition includes several areas not covered in previous editions. The 2009 Update Expands Data Coverage of Congenital Cardiovascular Defects and Nutritional/Dietary Intake and Adds a New Chapter on Epidemiology and Statistics of Subclinical Atherosclerosis and a Subsection on Family History of CVD. Chapters are dedicated to: Cardiovascular Diseases; Subclinical Atherosclerosis; Coronary Heart Disease, Acute Coronary Syndrome, and Angina Pectoris; Stroke (Cerebrovascular Disease); High Blood Pressure; Congenital Cardiovascular Defects; Heart Failure; Other Cardiovascular Diseases; Arrhythmias (Disorders of Heart Rhythm); Diseases of Arteries, (Including Peripheral Arterial Disease); Bacterial Endocarditis; Cardiomyopathy; Rheumatic Fever/Rheumatic Heart Disease; Valvular Heart Disease; Venous Thromboembolism; Risk Factor: Smoking/Tobacco Use; Risk Factor: High Blood Cholesterol and Other Lipids; Risk Factor: Physical Inactivity; Risk Factor: Overweight and Obesity; Risk Factor: Diabetes Mellitus; End-Stage Renal Disease and Chronic Kidney Disease; Metabolic Syndrome; Nutrition; Quality of Care; Medical Procedures; Economic Cost of Cardiovascular Diseases; At-a-Glance Summary Tables; Men and Cardiovascular Diseases; Women and Cardiovascular Diseases; Ethnic Groups and Cardiovascular Diseases; Children, Youth, and Cardiovascular Diseases.