Cardiovascular Health
7 Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Diseases and How to Tackle Them with Lifestyle Choices
Millions of people are at risk of heart disease and stroke, but with a healthy lifestyle, we can decrease those risks and prevent disorders from occurring.
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14 min readNov 16, 2022
Why do cardiovascular diseases matter?
Undoubtedly, cardiovascular diseases cause death and suffering to millions of people globally. For example, CDC (Centers for Disease Control) ranked heart disease as #1 in position. They affect both men and women.
Globally, 17.9 million die from cardiovascular diseases, according to the World Health Organization. Around 659,000 people in the US die from heart disease each year.
In fact, one person dies every 36 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease, according to CDC.
In this 2018 BMC systematic review paper, “the total economic loss due to cardiovascular diseases in low and middle-income countries was estimated to amount to $3.7 trillion between 2011 and 2015.”
