CO SCI 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Atrial Fibrillation, Heart Failure, Angina Pectoris
Document Summary
Leening (2014) heart disease in the netherlands: a quantitative update. There was a peak in cardiovascular mortality among women in the late 1950s and another among men in the early 1970s. Since then, cardiovascular mortality has gradually declined in the netherlands. Cvd accounts for 27% of all deaths: 33% in 2004, 37 % in 1992. In 2012, 39048 persons died from a primary cardiovascular cause. In 2007, 648. 300 dutch citizens suffered from chd: prevalence in women: 3, prevalence in men: 5% Combined with the incidence of chd in 2007, the total number of women and men with chd was estimated to be 730. 400: 298. 100 had angina pectoris. Women developed chd disease approximately 10 years later than their male counterparts. In 2012, 3514 men and 2681 women died from an mi. The number of hospitalisations for mi in 2012 was 20,025 men and 9653 women. Hospital mortality from mi is between 5 and 10% according to data from statistics.
