Explain Global burden in the history of mart disease?
In 2001, 17 million people died of CVD of all types. The most important causes were ischemic heart disease (IHD), Hypertension and rheumatic heart disease (RHD).
Ischemic heart disease: In 1998, 12.4 million died of heart attack and stroke (heart attack 7.3 million; stroke 5.1 million); of these, 78 per cent were in the low and middle-income countries The high-income countries had lower death rates because of better preventive and treatment programs.
Hypertension: There were 600 million hypertensives in the world at risk for heart attack, stroke and cardiac failure; 180 million in the high income and 420 in the low- and middle-income countries.
Rheumatic heart disease: There were 12 million young adults and children with RHD requiring secondary prophylaxis of whom 8 million were of school going age, mostly in low and middle-income countries