Once again our stroke associations are taking the easy way out by saying, You make changes because we have no interest in figuring out how to help you recover after you have a stroke, that would be too much work for us to accomplish. You will notice they never mention anything they are going to do, what a worthless organization. Dr. Sacco, your reply?
http://www.healio.com/cardiology/chd-prevention/news/online/%7B4DB88C18-50ED-4F54-81FC-9BBF191394C6%7D/AHA-releases-new-heart-disease-stroke-projections-for-2013
According to projections in the American Heart Association’s
Heart Disease and Stroke Statistical Update 2013, CV health may only
improve by 6% if current trends continue.
The AHA cites the biggest barriers to success as projected increases in obesity and diabetes, and only modest improvements in diet and physical activity. In contrast, smoking, high cholesterol and hypertension rates are projected to decline, according to a press release.
“Americans need to move a lot more, eat healthier and less, and manage risk factors as soon as they develop,” Alan S. Go, MD, chairman of the report’s writing committee and chief of the cardiovascular and metabolic conditions section of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California division of research in Oakland, Calif., stated in the release. “If not, we’ll quickly lose the momentum we’ve gained in reducing heart attack and stroke rates and improving survival over the last few decades.”
The report contains the most up-to-date statistics on CVD, stroke and other vascular diseases. According to the recent data:
The AHA cites the biggest barriers to success as projected increases in obesity and diabetes, and only modest improvements in diet and physical activity. In contrast, smoking, high cholesterol and hypertension rates are projected to decline, according to a press release.
“Americans need to move a lot more, eat healthier and less, and manage risk factors as soon as they develop,” Alan S. Go, MD, chairman of the report’s writing committee and chief of the cardiovascular and metabolic conditions section of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California division of research in Oakland, Calif., stated in the release. “If not, we’ll quickly lose the momentum we’ve gained in reducing heart attack and stroke rates and improving survival over the last few decades.”
The report contains the most up-to-date statistics on CVD, stroke and other vascular diseases. According to the recent data:
- The rate of CVD-related deaths decreased by 32.7% from 1999 to 2009, but still accounted for one in three deaths in the United States.
- More than 34% of adults aged 20 years and older are obese and 68.2% are overweight or obese; just 31.8% are of normal weight or underweight.
- Thirty-two percent of children aged 2 to 19 years are overweight or obese.
- Thirty-two percent of adults report no aerobic activity, and 17.7% of girls and 10% of boys in grades 9 to 12 report less than 1 hour of aerobic activity per week.
- Fourteen percent of adults have total cholesterol of 240 mg/dL or higher.
- Hypertension is present in about 33% of adults, with blacks having the highest prevalence worldwide (44%).
- More than 8% of adults have diagnosed diabetes, 8.2% have undiagnosed diabetes and 38.2% have prediabetes.
- Despite four decades of improvement, 21.3% of men and 16.7% of women report smoking cigarettes; 18.1% of students in grades 9 to 12 report smoking.
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