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Stroke is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US and disables 2.5 million people every year.
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American Stroke Association/American Heart Association. "American Stroke Association Home Page". [ Permalink ]

1/2 of those who survive a heart attack are readmitted to the hospital within 1 year of the event.
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Tavazzi, Luigi. "Clinical Epidemiology of Acute Myocardial Infarction". American Heart Journal. Vol. 138, pp. S48-S54. [ Permalink ]

Hypertension doubles a person's risk of stroke.
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Seshadri, Sudha, Alexa Beiser, Margaret Kelly-Hayes, Carlos Kase, Rhoda Au, William Kannel, and Philip Wolf. "The Lifetime Risk of Stroke: Estimates from the Framingham Study". Stroke. Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 345-50. [ Permalink ]

Close to 1/3 of American adults with high blood pressure do not know they have it, which increases the risk of related complications and other diseases.
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Jones, Daniel, and John Hall. "The National High Blood Pressure Education Program: Thirty years and counting". Hypertension. Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 941-42. [ Permalink ]

High blood pressure decreases the life expectancy of men by 5.1 years and women by 4.9 years.
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Franco, Oscar, Anna Peeters, Luc Bonneux, and Chris de Laet. "Blood Pressure in Adulthood and Life Expectancy with Cardiovascular Disease in Men and Women: Life course analysis". Hypertension. Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 280-6. [ Permalink ]

Preliminary mortality data from 2005 shows that cardiovascular disease accounted for 35.2% (861,826) of all deaths in 2005, or 1 of every 2.8 deaths in the US.
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American Heart Association. Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2008 Update. December 2007. [ Permalink ]

Close to 2,400 Americans die of cardiovascular disease each day—an average of 1 death every 37 seconds.
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American Heart Association. Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2008 Update. December 2007. [ Permalink ]

In 2004, 32% of deaths from cardiovascular disease occurred before the age of 75 years, which is well before the average life expectancy of 77.9 years.
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American Heart Association. Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2008 Update. December 2007. [ Permalink ]

Coronary heart disease caused 1 of every 5 deaths in the United States in 2004. Coronary heart disease mortality was 451,326.
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American Heart Association. Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2008 Update. December 2007. [ Permalink ]

In 2008, an estimated 770,000 Americans will have a new coronary attack, and about 430,000 will have a recurrent attack.
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American Heart Association. Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2008 Update. December 2007. [ Permalink ]

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