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FACTS & STATISTICS
Are you playing a numbers game?
Each day the average heart beats
100,000 times and pumps about 2,000
gallons of blood throughout your
body, letting you do the things
you need to - drive, work, teach,
play, even sleep - Whatever you
do, your heart makes it possible.
You probably don't give it much
thought, until there's a problem.
But chances are, you have been or
know someone who's been affected
by cardiac distress. Heart disease
is real, it's critical, but thankfully,
in most cases it's avoidable.
| 60
billion |
dollars spent on
heart attack treatment and prevention
each year |
| 2.5 billion
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times in a 70-year
lifetime, an average human heart
beats |
| 14 million |
the number of Americans
afflicted with some form of
heart disease or angina |
| 8.9 million
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the estimated number
of angina patients in the United
States |
| 1.2 million
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average number
of heart attacks that occur
each year |
| 450,000 |
approximate number
of deaths due to heart attacks
annually in the United States |
| 400,000 |
number of new angina
cases each year in the United
States |
| 233,000 |
number of women
who die from cardiovascular
disease each year |
| 80 |
percentage of heart
attacks caused by blood clots |
| 60 |
every minute, another
heart attack death occurs |
| 55 |
percent of heart
attack survivors who say they
have reevaluated their priorities
in life and believe they have
been given a second chance |
| 50 |
percentage of deaths
that occur one hour after a
heart attack when not treated |
| 38 |
percentage of victims
who die from a coronary heart
attack annually |
| 20 |
every 20 seconds,
a new heart attack occurs somewhere
in America |
| 20 |
percentage of deaths
due to heart attack annually
in the United States |
| 1 |
Coronary heart
disease and stroke are the number
one and number three life-and-death
emergencies in the U.S., and
in these time sensitive cases,
every second on the way to diagnosis
and treatment counts.
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We encourage you to take these numbers
to heart, and start thinking now about
what you can do to avoid becoming
one of them. Start by remembering
to dial, don’t drive in any
heart related emergency.
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