KINE 1020 Study Guide - Final Guide: Congenital Heart Defect, Coronary Artery Disease, Rheumatic Fever
12 Apr 2013
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Cvd: is a term used for diseases affecting the circulatory system including the heart and blood vessels. Whether the blood vessels are affecting the lungs, brain, kidney or other organs this is still a cvd. The most costly disease in 2000 was musculoskeletal diseases, then cardiovascular diseases, then neuropsychiatric conditions. Cvd has a cost of 7. 6 billion for direct cost (physicians, drugs) and 14. 1 billion for indirect cost (disability, mortality). Neuropsychiatric conditions had the most costly direct cost (diagnostic cost). Even though the amount of death from cvd has decreased over time, still there is a huge amount of death. Cvd constitutes of 27% of the leading causes to death (including heart disease and stroke). However, the # 1 leading cause to death is cancer and it is 29. 6%. There is a variation with cv death between canadian provinces. This mostly depends on the laziness of the people in the province.
