Heart Disease by the Numbers: Facts, Statistics, and You

Heart Disease by the Numbers: Facts, Statistics, and You

The average person’s heart will beat about 2 billion times in their lifetime. Yet heart disease and heart attack threaten to cut that number short.

Learn statistics to find out if you’re at risk and what you can do to protect your ticker and live a longer, healthier life.

Written by Rachael Maier

Medically Reviewed on 21 February 2014 by George Krucik, MD, MBA

 

Source: http://www.healthline.com/health/heart-disease-infographic

  

 

Article Sources:

• http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus12.pdf#026
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• http://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm

• http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/123/4/e18/T9.expansion.html  
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