With your cooperation and the support of the medical profession, insurance companies, government agencies and communities throughout the country, the agency hopes to prevent a million heart attacks and strokes by the year 2022.As the centers’ experts estimated last year, if 2016 trends remain constant through 2021, an estimated 16.3 million potentially preventable life-threatening or fatal events, or 3.3 million a year, are projected to occur, including 2.2 million emergency department visits, 2.2 million deaths and 11.8 million hospitalizations, at a projected cost of $170 billion. A third of these preventable events are likely to afflict people aged 35 to 64, these experts, Dr. Janet S. Wright, Hilary K. Wall and Matthew D. Ritchey, calculated.He and his colleagues cited 213 million opportunities to improve cardiovascular risk among Americans by addressing behaviors that are currently standing in the way of progress: 71 million people are physically inactive, participating in no leisure-time exercise. 54 million people are still smoking combustible tobacco products. 40 million adults have uncontrolled high blood pressure.39 million with high cholesterol are not using medication to lower it. 9 million people for whom a daily baby aspirin is appropriate are not taking it.
The as-yet unstoppable epidemic of obesity is most likely the leading cause of preventable cardiovascular disease and deaths. Excess weight can result in high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, Type 2 diabetes and a reluctance to be physically active, all of which contribute to cardiovascular risk.
The as-yet unstoppable epidemic of obesity is most likely the leading cause of preventable cardiovascular disease and deaths. Excess weight can result in high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, Type 2 diabetes and a reluctance to be physically active, all of which contribute to cardiovascular risk.
