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Heart disease and Heart attack:

• Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women.

• a total of 631,636 people in the United States died of heart disease

• In the United States, someone has a heart attack every 34 seconds. Each minute, someone in the United States dies from a heart disease-related event.

Stroke:

• Stroke is the third leading cause of death for both men and women.

• 137,000 people in the United States died of stroke, accounting for nearly 1 in every 17 deaths. Only heart disease and cancer killed more people

• Someone in the United States has a stroke every 40 seconds. Every three to four minutes, someone dies of stroke.

• Ischemic strokes, which occur when blood clots block the blood vessels to the brain, are the most common type of stroke, representing about 85% of all strokes – Primary Cause for this is due to Cholesterol deposits to the Carotid arteries (that supply the brain) causing occlusion and narrowing of those arteries.

Diabetes:

• Age 20 years or older: 23.5 million or 10.7% of all people in this age group have diabetes.

• Diabetes is one of the major risk factors for Heart attack, Stroke, Chronic Kidney disease and Death.

Chronic Kidney disease (CKD):

• More than 10% of people, or more than 20 million, aged 20 years or older in the United States have CKD

• More than 35% of people aged 20 years or older with diabetes have CKD.

• More than 20% of people aged 20 years or older with hypertension have CKD.

Hypertension:

• About one out of three U.S. adults—31.3%—has high blood pressure.

• High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease, stroke, congestive heart failure, and kidney disease.

• More than one in five (22.4%) people with high blood pressure don't know that they have it.

High Cholesterol:

• Approximately one in every six adults—16.3% of the U.S. adult population—has high total cholesterol.

• People with high total cholesterol have approximately twice the risk of heart disease as people with optimal levels

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