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About 90% of women who have normal blood pressure at the age of 65 will develop hypertension by age 85.
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Vasan, Ramachandran S., Alexa Beiser, Sudha Seshadri, Martin G. Larson, William B. Kannel, Ralph B. D'Agostino, and Daniel Levy. "Residual Lifetime Risk for Developing Hypertension in Middle-Aged Women and Men: The Framingham Heart Study". 2002. [ Permalink ]

Close to 82% of Americans who die of cardiovascular disease are 65 years of age or older.
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Lloyd-Jones, Donald, Robert Adams, Mercedes Carnethon, Giovanni De Simone, T. Bruce Ferguson, Katherine Flegal, Earl Ford, Karen Furie, Alan Go, Kurt Greenlund, Nancy Haase, Susan Hailpern, Michael Ho, Virginia Howard, Brett Kissela, et al. . "Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2009 Update: A report from the American Heart Association statistics committee and stroke statistics subcommittee". Circulation. Vol. 119, pp. e21-181. [ Permalink ]

The prevalence of valve disease increases with age, from 0.7% in participants 18-44 to 13.3% in participants 75 years of age or older.
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Nkomo, Vuyisile, Julius Gardin, Thomas Skelton, John Gottdiener, Christopher Scott, Maurice Enriquez-Sarano. "Burden of Valvular Heart Diseases: a population-based study". Lancet. Vol. 368, No. 9540, pp. 1005-11. [ Permalink ]

10 million Americans are disabled as a result of stroke and heart disease.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. "Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke". [ Permalink ]

More than 6 million hospitalizations a year are due to cardiovascular disease.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. "Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke". [ Permalink ]

Approximately 66% of heart attack patients do not make a complete recovery.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. The Burden of Chronic Diseases and Their Risk Factors: National and state perspectives. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2004. [ Permalink ]

71.5% of 65-year-olds with coronary heart disease have 3 or more comorbidities and physical limitations--only 3.8% have none.
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Joyce, Geoffrey F., Emmett B. Keeler, Baoping Shang, and Dana P. Goldman. "The Lifetime Burden of Chronic Disease among the Elderly: Health and costs of the future elderly". Health Affairs Web Exclusive Collection . Vol. 24, No. 2, [ Permalink ]

20% of stroke survivors require institutional care within 3 months after onset and 15% to 30% are permanently disabled.
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Steinwachs, Donald M., Ruth L. Collins-Nakai, Lawrence H. Cohn, Arthur Garson, Jr., and Michael J. Wolk. "The Future of Cardiology: Utilization and costs of care". Journal of the American College of Cardiology . Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 1092-9. [ Permalink ]

Only 2.7% of 65-year-olds who have experienced a stroke are free of comorbidities and physical limitations--66.4% have 3 or more.
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Joyce, Geoffrey F., Emmett B. Keeler, Baoping Shang, and Dana P. Goldman. "The Lifetime Burden of Chronic Disease among the Elderly: Health and costs of the future elderly". Health Affairs Web Exclusive Collection . Vol. 24, No. 2, [ Permalink ]

A study of ischemic stroke survivors who were at least 65-years-old found that at 6 months post-stroke 50% had some one-sided paralysis, 30% were unable to walk without some assistance, 26% were dependent in activities of daily living, 19% had aphasia, 35% had symptoms of depression, and 26% were institutionalized in a nursing home.
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National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. "Framingham Heart Study". [ Permalink ]

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