The projected surge in cardiovascular disease (CVD) is being driven by rising rates of high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes. Currently, more than 62 million American women have CVD, which already costs the United States at least $200 billion annually. If current trends continue, the burden of heart disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and stroke is expected to grow sharply over the next 25 years.
The report highlights particularly worrying trends among younger females. By 2050, nearly one-third of women aged 20-44 are projected to have some type of cardiovascular disease, with diabetes rates in this age group expected to more than double and high blood pressure and obesity also climbing steeply. Among girls aged 2-19, almost 32 percent are projected to have obesity by mid-century.
To learn how heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, and many other cardiovascular conditions can be prevented and controlled naturally, without drugs, see Dr. Rath’s classic book, ‘Why Animals Don’t Get Heart Attacks … But People Do’.
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Driven by rising rates in high blood pressure, nearly 6 in 10 women in the United States will have some type of cardiovascular disease in the next 25 years, according to a new scientific statement published in Circulation, the peer-reviewed, flagship journal of the American Heart Association.
[Source: heart.org]
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The projected surge in cardiovascular disease (CVD) is being driven by rising rates of high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes. Currently, more than 62 million American women have CVD, which already costs the United States at least $200 billion annually. If current trends continue, the burden of heart disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and stroke is expected to grow sharply over the next 25 years.
The report highlights particularly worrying trends among younger females. By 2050, nearly one-third of women aged 20-44 are projected to have some type of cardiovascular disease, with diabetes rates in this age group expected to more than double and high blood pressure and obesity also climbing steeply. Among girls aged 2-19, almost 32 percent are projected to have obesity by mid-century.
To learn how heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, and many other cardiovascular conditions can be prevented and controlled naturally, without drugs, see Dr. Rath’s classic book, ‘Why Animals Don’t Get Heart Attacks … But People Do’.
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