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Chapter 14

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Deaths from Cardiovascular Disease

Source: Heron, M.P., Hoyert, D.L., et al. (2009). Deaths: Final data for 2006. National Vital Statistics Reports 57(14). Online: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_14.pdf.

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Lecture Notes

So on this slide you can see the breakdown of the over 30% of deaths that occur from cardiovascular disease. The majority of those are coronary heart disease, followed by stroke and then high blood pressure and heart failure, diseases of the arteries and other diseases. And so the main take-home point here is that coronary heart disease is responsible for the highest percentage of deaths from cardiovascular disease, but this doesn't mean the others aren't important, and we'll talk about all of these in the next series of slides.