Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Is heart disease still the #1 cause of death in America

Is heart disease still the #1 cause of death in America?
My health teacher told me it was cancer but when I looked it up it was not.
Heart Diseases - 6 Answers
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1 :
heat disease is number one, you are right.. but for men.. number one that kill men is heart attack..
2 :
Heart disease is still the #1 cause. They are projecting cancer will be the #1 cause by 2012.
3 :
Go Mcdonalds!
4 :
It is difficult to estimate exactly how common heart attacks are because as many as 200,000 to 300,000 people in the United States die each year before medical help is sought. It is estimated that approximately 1 million patients visit the hospital each year with a heart attack. About 1 out of every 5 deaths are due to a heart attack. (MedlinePlus) In the United States, diseases of the heart are the leading cause of death, causing a higher mortality than cancer (malignant neoplasms). Coronary heart disease is responsible for 1 in 5 deaths in the U.S.. Some 7,200,000 men and 6,000,000 women are living with some form of coronary heart disease. 1,200,000 people suffer a (new or recurrent) coronary attack every year, and about 40% of them die as a result of the attack. This means that roughly every 65 seconds, an American dies of a coronary event. (Wikipedia) In the US, about 1.5 million Myocardial Infarctions (MI) occur annually; MI results in death for 400,000 to 500,000 people, with about half dying before they reach the hospital. (Merck) Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and is a major cause of disability. Almost 700,000 people die of heart disease in the U.S. each year. That is about 29% of all U.S. deaths. Heart disease is a term that includes several more specific heart conditions. The most common heart disease in the United States is coronary heart disease, which can lead to heart attack.(CDC)
5 :
heart diesease will always be #1 the government are puttin prices up of cigarettes so more people will stop and never will smoke because of all the prices
6 :
The simple answer is "yes

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