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HEART
STATISTICS According
to the American Heart Association; every 33 seconds an American dies from
cardiovascular disease. Every 20 seconds an American suffers a heart attack, and
every 60 seconds, somebody dies from one. IN
THE UNITED STATES AND MOST OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES, ATHEROSCLEROSIS IS THE
LEADING CAUSE OF ILLNESS AND DEATH In
the United States alone, it caused almost 1 million deaths in 1996--twice as
many as cancer caused and 10 times as many as accidents caused. In
Canada, heart disease and stroke remain the #1 killers of both men and women.
Cardiovascular disease accounts for the death of more Canadians than any
other disease. Cardiac
disease and stroke are also major causes of illness and disability in Canada,
exacting high personal, community and health-care costs. DESPITE SIGNIFICANT MEDICAL ADVANCES, HEART ATTACKS DUE TO CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND STROKES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MORE DEATHS THAN ALL OTHER CAUSES COMBINED
In
regard to medical procedures in the treatment of heart related problems, one
doctor’s opinion is that technology has been confused with science.
Just because it is possible to do a coronary bypass or angioplasty does
not necessarily mean that it always makes sense to undertake it.
Bypass surgery fails to reduce the mortality rate for 75 percent of heart
patients who undergo the procedure. In 1994 average cost of bypass
surgery was US$ 44,000 each while angioplasties US$ 21,000.
Total cost of cardiovascular disease in USA for 1994, both direct
(hospitalization, procedures, and drugs) and indirect (lost working time), were
an estimated US$ 259 billion. THE
MAJORITY OF HEART ATTACKS OCCUR WITHOUT WARNING, MAKING IT VITAL TO PRACTICE
GOOD HEART HEALTH Conventional medicine believes that the answer to fighting heart disease is to treat certain symptoms such as high blood pressure or in lowering cholesterol with medications. Americans make about 147 million office visits to doctors every year for hypertension and heart disease, according to a report in American Health. |
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