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Row 1 from blood work; rows 2, 3 & 4 from Merck

HEART STATS

American Heart Association

For tables of heart disease factors (43 pages—would copy to web page) http://www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/1200078608862HS_Stats%202008.final.pdf

Fat consumption is 33% of total calories with saturated fats being 10.8%.  Meat averages 200 pounds per person per year. 

Catheterizations 1,322,000 annually, 604,502 hospital discharges, with average stay of 3.6 days.  In 05 there were 469,000 coronary artery bypass procedures preformed on 261,000 patients. In 06 2,192 heart transplants, with 24.7 were younger than 35.  1,265,000 Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI) (angioplasty).  Costs for 04 were for bypass $85,653, PCI $44,110; Catheterization $25,322, pacemaker $43,101; implantable defibrillator $99,845, endarterectomy $22,037, valves $119,918.    Since 1965 smoking has declined 50%.  Smoking was 43.2% for those with 9-11 years of education and 7.1% for those with more than 16 years.  46,600,000 smokers in 05 (25.9 males and 20.7 females). 

From 1997-2001, an estimated 438,000 Americans died each year of smoking-related illnesses, of which 34.7% were from cardiovascular disease.  On an average, male smokers die 13.2 years earlier than nonsmokers and females 14.5 years earlier than female nonsmokers.  Smoking caused 3.3 million years of lost for men, and 2.2 million for women.  Cigarette smoking results in a two-to-three-fold risk of dying from coronary heart disease.  Use of tobacco products in 2004 was 31.4% for whites, 11.7% for Asians, 23.3% for Latinos. 

In 2005 106,700,000 had total cholesterol of 200 mg/dL (age 20 and older), or 48%, and for above 240 mg/dL, 37,200,000 or 17%.

Overweight children 2-5 years 10.3% were overweight in 04; 6-11 years increased from 4% in 71 to 17.5% in 04.  ADULTS, 142,000,000 were overweight (73M males, and 69M females) which is 66% of adult population, of which 31.4% were obese BMI of 30 or greater).  Diabetes mortality in 04 was 225,400, which is 2-4 times higher than those without diabetes.  Lifetime risk of stroke goes from 1.8 to 6%.   

High blood pressure in 05, 73M (1 in 3 adults), (33.4M men, 39M women) untreated systolic pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher, or diastolic pressure of 90 mm HG or higher.  This results in a 1.5 times greater rate of heart disease and a 4.2 times rate of end-stage kidney disease.  Elder women (over 75) have an 83.8 incidence and men a 69.5% incidence of HBP.

CORONARY HEART DISEASE (CHD):  in 05 was 16M of which 8.7M were men and 7.3M women and there were 770,000 new coronary attacks and 430,000 recurrent attacks, and another 190,000 silent first heart attacks.  Of these 600,000 were new myocardial infarctions (MI), and 320,000 recurrent.  Average age of first attack is 64.5 for men and 70.4 for women.   The lifetime risk of developing CHD after the age of 40 is 49% for men and 32% for women.  CHD in women lags behind men by 10 years and 20 for the more serious evens such as MI and sudden death.  CHD causes 1 in 5 deaths (451,326 in 04).  Of those who experience a coronary attack in a given year, 38% will die during the following 12 months.  Of those who die from CHD, 82% are over the age of 65.  Overall CHD death rates decreased by 59% from 1950 to 1999 (see note at bottom for reason).  Non-sudden CHD death decreased by 64%, and sudden by 49%.  Alabama has the worst death rate fro CHD of 364.2, California is ranked 28^th with 276.4, Hawaii 3^rd with 230.4, and Minnesota 1^st with 211.1.

From Wikipedia.org:  About one half the smokers will die of illnesses due to smoking.  A world-wide a billion people this century will die this century from the health consequences of tobacco.  1,205 US citizen a day die from tobacco related illnesses, of which the main forms are diseases of the cardiovascular system.  Incidence of impotence is 85% higher in male smokers.  Lung cancer, which was rare before 1900, will afflict 10% of smokers, yet only 1.33% of non-smokers—of whom half of this number is attributed to second-hand smoke. All forms of cancer are increased by smoking; for example, pancreatic cancer by 250%.  .   

For a delightful 1922 brochure by Dr Kellogg (of cereal fame) on tobacco http://healthfully.org/tobacco/id8.html 

Big PhARMA claims that it is the drugs which prolong life, but rather it is the reduction in cardiovascular disease, and this is attributed in the main to the reduction in the smoking rate—whose major impact upon the stats takes 20 years.  Smoking reached a high of 59% of the male and 46% percent of the female adult population in the early 50s.  It currently is at 27 & 22% respectively (MORE PROOF THAT WOMEN ARE SMARTER THEN MEN).