CVD Awareness

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide, causing around 19 million deaths each year, an average of 50 000 people each day or one death every 1.7 seconds.
Most of these CVD deaths can be prevented by addressing people's lifestyles
There are around 550 million people living with cardiovascular diseases across the world, of which, about 53% of them are women.
And each year, as much as 60 million people across the world develop a cardiovascular disease.
This is why the cardiovascular disease burden has been on the rise since the last century, in fact, there has been a 93% increase from 1990.
The highest burden is in Asia and Australasia, followed by Europe, followed by Africa, followed by North America and least in South America.
And the 4 most common CVDs are, in decreasing order, coronary heart disease, peripheral arterial disease, stroke and atrial fibrillation.

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Reference: British Heart Foundation https://www.bhf.org.uk/-/media/files/research/heart-statistics/bhf-cvd-statistics-global-factsheet.pdf

World Health Organization (WHO) and Heart Foundation define cardiovascular diseases as a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels
They include coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, peripheral arterial disease, rheumatic heart disease, congenital heart disease & deep vein thrombosis
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