Men and Heart Disease Statistics

While heart disease is the number one killer of women, men are equally affected.

-In 2002, over 340,000 men died from heart disease.

-Heart disease is the leading cause of death in men.

-A man's average age for a first heart attack is 66 years old.

-Between 70 percent and 89 percent of sudden cardiac incidents occur in men.

-50 percent of men who have a heart attack before the age of 65 die within eight years.

-Men suffer heart attacks on average, ten years earlier than women.

-50 percent of men who have died from a heart attack exhibited no previous symptoms.

-Men who are clinically depressed have a higher risk of heart disease and heart attack then men who are not depressed.

Women and Heart Disease Statistics

Every day, another woman becomes a fatal statistic to heart disease. Here are some quick facts about heart disease and its effect on women:

-Heart disease is the number one killer of women.

-8 million women in the United States have some form of heart disease.

-Every 34 seconds a woman dies from a heart related disease.

-Women who have reached menopause are two to three more times likely to develop coronary artery disease than those who have not reached menopause.

-6 million women in the United States have had a heart attack or experienced angina.

-31,837 women each year die from congestive heart failure.

-Heart disease takes more lives than the next eight on list for top killers of women, including breast cancer.

-267,000 women will die from a heart attack this year.

-Women who smoke have a chance of having a heart attack 19 years before women who do not smoke.

Heart Disease Statistics

The number one cause of death in the United States is Coronary Heart Disease. The number two cause of death in the United States is stroke. Cardiovascular disease cause more deaths than the next seven top causes combined.
One-third of deaths caused by cardiovascular disease are in people 65 years of age or younger.
Fifty percent of males have Coronary Heart Disease by the age of 50, and 50 percent of females have Coronary Heart Disease by the age of 60.

Heart Disease Statistics in Minority Male Groups

Heart disease spans across cultures and ethnicities. Minorities are often affected by heart disease. Here are some statistics from the American Heart Association on the effect of heart disease in minority groups:

-Hispanic males are 30 percent less likely to die from heart disease compared to Caucasian males.

-26.7 percent of Mexican American males over the age of 20 have high blood pressure.

-17.4 percent of Mexican American men over the age of 20 have high cholesterol.

-Heart disease is the leading cause of death in Hispanic males.

-African American men are 40 percent more likely than non-Hispanic white males to die from heart disease.

-African American men who have a stroke have a 97 percent more chance of dying than white males.

-46 percent of African American males over the age of 20 have high cholesterol over 200mg/dl.

-Close to 58 percent of African American males aged 20 to 74 are overweight.

-33.4 percent of African American males who die, die of heart disease.

-41 percent of African American men over the age of 20 have some form of heart disease.

-In 2003 over 49,000 African American males died of heart disease.

Heart Disease Statistics in Minority Female Groups

Here are some statistics from the American Heart Association on the effect of heart disease in minority groups and women:

-Almost 40 percent of African American females who die, die of heart disease.

-44 percent of African American women have some sort of heart disease.

-In 2003 over 55,000 African American females died from heart disease.

-African American females have a 71 percent greater chance of having a stroke compared to Caucasian women.

-47 percent of African American women have a cholesterol level greater than 200 mg/dl.

-67 percent of African American women are overweight.

-African American women ages 55 to 64 are twice as likely to have a heart attacked compared to white women.

-Heart disease is the number one killer of African American women.

-Mexican American or Hispanic women are 1.5 times more likely to be obese than white women.

-Almost 50 percent of Hispanic women are at risk for high cholesterol.

-57 percent of Mexican American women get no exercise at all.

-Heart disease and stroke are responsible for 33 percent of Hispanic women's deaths.

-Cardiovascular diseases affect almost 27 percent of Hispanic women over the age of 20.

-12.3 percent of Hispanic women over the age of 18 smoke.

-Heart disease is the number one killer of Hispanic women.

General Heart Disease Statistics

In general, heart disease knows no limits and can effect anyone of any gender or race. Here are some general statistics from the American Heart Association:

-In 2003, more than 65 million Americans were known to have high blood pressure.

-7 million Americans had an acute heart attack in 2003.

-More than 6 million Americans had angina in that same year.

-Over 5 million Americans had a stroke in 2003.

-Cardiovascular disease is believed to have killed almost one million people in 2003. Cancer killed 555,000 people that same year.

-From 1993 to 2003, the death rate from cardiovascular disease dropped by 22 percent.

-Every 34 seconds a person in the United States dies from heart disease.

-This totals more than 2,500 people dying each day in the United States from heart disease.

-250,000 people die each year from a heart attack before they reach a hospital.

-There are about six million hospitalizations each year due to heart disease.

-With the exception of the year 1918, cardiovascular disease has been the number one killer of Americans from 1900 to the present.

-Countries with the highest rate of heart disease are: Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

-Countries with the lowest rate of heart disease are: Japan, France, Spain, Switzerland and Canada.

Heart Disease Statistics

The number one cause of death in the United States is Coronary Heart Disease. The number two cause of death in the United States is stroke. Cardiovascular disease cause more deaths than the next seven top causes combined.
One-third of deaths caused by cardiovascular disease are in people 65 years of age or younger.
Fifty percent of males have Coronary Heart Disease by the age of 50, and 50 percent of females have Coronary Heart Disease by the age of 60.