{"id":33474,"date":"2012-12-12T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33474"},"modified":"2012-12-12T16:15:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T21:15:48","slug":"state-of-the-heart-aha-publishes-year-end-statistical-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2012\/12\/12\/state-of-the-heart-aha-publishes-year-end-statistical-update\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Heart: AHA Publishes Year-End Statistical Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although deaths from cardiovascular disease have been declining for many years, continued progress is threatened by disturbing trends in U.S. lifestyles. That&#8217;s the clear message from the American Heart Association&#8217;s year-end report, <a title=\"HD\/StrokeStats2013_circ\" href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/content\/early\/2012\/12\/12\/CIR.0b013e31828124ad.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHeart Disease and Stroke Statistical Update 2013,\u201d published in\u00a0<em>Circulation<\/em><\/a>. \u201cAmericans need to move a lot more, eat healthier and less, and manage risk factors as soon as they develop,\u201d said Dr. Alan S. Go, the chairman of the report\u2019s writing committee, in an AHA press release. \u201cIf not, we\u2019ll quickly lose the momentum we\u2019ve gained in reducing heart attack and stroke rates and improving survival over the last few decades.\u201d Here are some of the key statistics contained in the hefty report: <strong>&#8220;The Epidemic of Poor Health Behaviors.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Among adults, 21.2% of men and 17.5% of women continue to smoke cigarettes. 18.1% of high school students are smokers.<\/li>\n<li>Among high school students, 17.7% of girls and 10.0% of boys report they did less than one hour of moderate-to-vigorous exercise per week.<\/li>\n<li>Thirty-three percent of adults reported engaging in no aerobic leisure-time physical activity.<\/li>\n<li>From 1971 to 2004, calorie intake increased from\u00a01542 to 1886 kcal\/day (22%) in women and from 2450 to 2693 kcal\/day (10%) in men. Most of the change is due to an increased consumtpion of starches, refined grains, and sugars.<\/li>\n<li>68.2% of adults are overweight or obese; 34.6% are obese.<\/li>\n<li>31.8% of children 2 to 19 years of age are overweight or obese; 16.9% are obese.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Prevalence and Control of Health Factors and Risks Remains an Issue for Many Americans&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>13.8% of U.S. adults have serum serum cholesterol levels \u2265240 mg\/dL.<\/li>\n<li>33.0% of U.S. adults have hypertension. About 82% are aware of their condition, and 75% receive antihypertensive therapy, but only a little more than half (53%) have achieved target blood pressure levels.<\/li>\n<li>8.3% of U.S. adults have been diagnosed with diabetes; 38.2% have abnormal fasting glucose levels (prediabetes).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CV Disease and Mortality<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Although the percentage of deaths attributable to CV disease has been declining for decades, in 2009 CV disease \u00a0was responsible for nearly one-third (32.3%) of all deaths in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>About 635,000 people have a first MI or CHD death each year. About 280,000 have a second MI.<\/li>\n<li>About 795,000 people have a new or recurrent stroke each year.<\/li>\n<li>The 2009 total direct and indirect estimated cost of CVD and stroke was $312.6 billion.<\/li>\n<li>The 2008 total direct and indirect estimated cost of all cancer and benign neoplasms was $228 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although deaths from cardiovascular disease have been declining for many years, continued progress is threatened by disturbing trends in U.S. lifestyles. That&#8217;s the clear message from the American Heart Association&#8217;s year-end report, \u201cHeart Disease and Stroke Statistical Update 2013,\u201d published in\u00a0Circulation. \u201cAmericans need to move a lot more, eat healthier and less, and manage risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[1306,290,615],"class_list":["post-33474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prevention","tag-american-heart-association","tag-epidemiology","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}