Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2009 Update

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1. About These Statistics…e702. Cardiovascular Diseases…e723. Coronary Heart Disease, Acute Coronary Syndrome, and Angina Pectoris…e894. Stroke…e995. High Blood Pressure…e1116. Congenital Cardiovascular Defects…e1167. Heart Failure…e1198. Other Cardiovascular Diseases…e122 9. Risk Factor: Smoking/Tobacco Use…e12810. Risk Factor: High Blood Cholesterol and Other Lipids…e13211. Risk Factor: Physical Inactivity…e13612. Risk Factor: Overweight and Obesity…e13913. Risk Factor: Diabetes Mellitus…e14314. End-Stage Renal Disease and Chronic Kidney Disease…e14915. Metabolic Syndrome…e15116. Nutrition…e15317. Quality of Care…e15518. Medical Procedures…e15919. Economic Cost of Cardiovascular Diseases…e16220. At-a-Glance Summary Tables…e164 21. Glossary and Abbreviation Guide…e168 Writing Group Disclosures…e171Appendix I: List of Statistical Fact Sheets:http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=2007We thank Drs Robert Adams, Philip Gorelick, Matt Wilson, and Philip Wolf (members of the Statistics Committee or Stroke Statistics Subcommittee); Brian Eigel; Gregg Fonarow; Kathy Jenkins; Gail Pearson; and Michael Wolz for their valuable comments and contributions. We would like to acknowledge Tim Anderson and Tom Schneider for their editorial contributions and Karen Modesitt for her administrative assistance.# 1. About These Statistics {#article-title-2}The American Heart Association (AHA) works with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (CDC/NCHS); the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI); the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS); and other government agencies to derive the annual statistics in this Update. This chapter describes the most important sources and the types of data we use from them. For more details and an alphabetical list of abbreviations, see Chapter 21 of this document, the Glossary and Abbreviation Guide.The surveys used are: