Heart Disease Fibromyalgia High Cholesterol Danger? Toxic Metals Free Radicals -- Primer IV Chelation Therapy Wrong Diet Causes Diabetes	Vibrant Life Home Web Family Of Three Oral Chelation Formulas The Wednesday Letter The Hubbard Human Detoxification Program Hopeless Diseases -- Invented to Sell Drugs Wrong Relationship Cause of Disease Brain Chemical Imbalance Dr. Garry F. Gordon	Ultimate Resource On Chelation Therapy Home Page Shopping Cart	Separate Search Page or search below
Prevent Cancer	Oral Chelation Therapy Other	Karl Loren's Policy On Psychiatric Drugs Destruction Of American Education	Write To Karl Loren	Table Of Contents

Heart Disease Remains Top Killer -- Statistics Show

Source

 

Heart Disease Remains Top Killer, Statistics Show

 

Reuters
Tuesday, January 1, 2002; Page A11

Nearly 62 million Americans have some form of cardiovascular disease, and nearly a million die from such conditions each year, statistics published yesterday show.

Heart disease is by far the number one killer in the United States, although a third of those deaths could be prevented if people followed better diets and exercised more, the American Heart Association said in an annual report.

[Karl Note:  The diet recommended by the American Heart Association is EXACTLY the diet that causes heart disease -- it is a national disgrace that the AHA continues to promote false information about the number one cause of death in America.]

It said 61.8 million Americans had heart disease in 1999, the latest year for which statistics are available.

"Cardiovascular disease deaths in 1999 totaled 958,755; cancer 549,838; accidents 97,860; Alzheimer's disease 44,536 and HIV/AIDS 14,802," the association said in a statement. Heart disease accounted for 40 percent of all deaths in the United States in 1999.

[Karl Note:  The AHA conveniently omits the third leading cause of death -- prescribed drugs.  Click here for part of that story.  Click here for more.  Click here for more.  Click here for more.   Click here for even more on this.  ]

Strokes killed 167,366 people in 1999. When taken separately from other cardiovascular diseases, stroke is the third leading cause of death overall.

Many studies show that a better diet and a little exercise can prevent many deaths, yet Americans ignore the most basic guidelines, the heart association said.

"The American Heart Association advocates a dietary pattern that is rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fat-free and low-fat dairy products, lean meat, poultry and fish," said Barbara Howard, head of the organization's nutrition committee and president of MedStar Research Institute in Washington.

The report says only 22.7 percent of adults ate the minimum of five servings of fruits and vegetables a day in 1996 -- up from 19 percent in 1990.

Americans are also failing to control a common cause of heart death -- their blood pressure. Only 39 percent of adults with high blood pressure had their levels controlled to below 140/90 mm Hg, considered the highest desirable blood pressure, according to the National Center for Quality Assurance.

Doctors are getting better about prescribing the drugs that patients need, however. In 1999, 85 percent of heart-attack survivors got a beta blocker drug when they left the hospital, an increase from 62 percent in 1996.

[Karl Note:  Again, the drugs used to "control" heart disease are exactly the drugs that cause death and illness.]

If just 5 percent more got the drugs, 4,000 lives would be saved each year, the heart association estimates.

"The improvements in prescribing beta blockers are encouraging, and well over half of patients are getting their cholesterol screened, but there is no reason these practices shouldn't be at 100 percent," said David Faxon, president of the heart association. "These practices are key first steps in preventing a second heart attack."

About a quarter of all Americans smoke cigarettes, which cause an estimated one in five deaths from cardiovascular diseases, the heart association said. Its report said 37,000 to 40,000 nonsmokers die from heart disease every year because of exposure to secondhand cigarette smoke.

All this cost an estimated $298.2 billion in 2001, the group said.

 

© 2002 The Washington Post Company

E-Mail Address: First Name: Last Name:

E-Mail Address: