Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors
The Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors -What is cardiovascular disease? According to the World Heath Organization, Cardiovascular Diseases are those that affect the heart and blood vessels including the following: -Hypertension (high blood pressure) -Coronary Heart Disease (heart attack) -Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) -Peripheral vascular disease -Heart failure -Rheumatic heart disease -Congenital heart disease -Cardiomyopathies The most dangerous of these is Heart Disease. According to The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Heart Disease is blamed for 725,192 out of 2,391,399 (30. ... It may also be alarming that Heart Disease killed 15,231 people of ages 35-44 for 1999. ... 2% of all deaths that age group; Heart Disease killed more people of this age group than did HIV. ... Does Heart Disease also affect a disproportionate number of males? Among men of all ages and races, Heart Disease accounted for 29. ... Of all men 65 and older, Heart Disease racked up 33. ... And since Heart Disease affects mostly the elderly, it is perfectly understandable that more women would die of Heart Disease than of any other cause. While an official death certificate may say the cause of death was Heart Disease, most people see it as dying of old age. When we examine the statistics further, we see that of younger men, ages 35-44, Heart Disease accounts for 16.