{"id":6106,"date":"2011-01-24T11:18:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T16:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:38","slug":"aha-estimates-cost-of-heart-disease-will-triple-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/01\/24\/aha-estimates-cost-of-heart-disease-will-triple-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"AHA Estimates Cost of Heart Disease Will Triple by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Heart Association (AHA) is projecting that the cost to treat heart disease in the U.S. will triple by 2030, from $273 billion today to $818 billion. The <a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/CIR.0b013e31820a55f5v1\">AHA policy statement<\/a> is published in\u00a0<em>Circulation<\/em>.\u00a0The AHA estimates that the incidence of stroke and heart failure will each \u00a0grow by about 25% by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese estimates don\u2019t assume that we will continue to make new discoveries to reduce heart disease,\u201d said Paul Heidenreich, chair of the AHA expert panel issuing the statement, in a press release. \u201cIf our ability to prevent and treat heart disease stays where we are right now, costs will triple in 20 years just through demographic changes in the population.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Heart Association (AHA) is projecting that the cost to treat heart disease in the U.S. will triple by 2030, from $273 billion today to $818 billion. The AHA policy statement is published in\u00a0Circulation.\u00a0The AHA estimates that the incidence of stroke and heart failure will each \u00a0grow by about 25% by 2030. \u201cThese estimates [&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],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-epidemiology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106","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=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}