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Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2016 Update
A Report From the American Heart Association
WRITING GROUP MEMBERS
Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH, FAHA; Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, FAHA; Alan S. Go, MD;
Donna K. Arnett, PhD, MSPH, FAHA; Michael J. Blaha, MD, MPH;
Mary Cushman, MD, MSc, FAHA; Sandeep R. Das, MD, MPH; Sarah de Ferranti, MD, MPH;
Jean-Pierre Després, PhD, FAHA; Heather J. Fullerton, MD, MAS;
Virginia J. Howard, PhD, FAHA; Mark D. Huffman, MD, MPH, FAHA;
Carmen R. Isasi, MD, PhD; Monik C. Jiménez, ScD; Suzanne E. Judd, PhD;
Brett M. Kissela, MD, MS, FAHA; Judith H. Lichtman, PhD, MPH;
Lynda D. Lisabeth, PhD, MPH, FAHA; Simin Liu, MD, ScD, FAHA;
Rachel H. Mackey, PhD, MPH, FAHA; David J. Magid, MD, MPH;
Darren K. McGuire, MD, MHSc, FAHA; Emile R. Mohler III, MD, FAHA;
Claudia S. Moy, PhD, MPH; Paul Muntner, PhD; Michael E. Mussolino, PhD, FAHA;
Khurram Nasir, MD, MPH; Robert W. Neumar, MD, PhD; Graham Nichol, MD, MPH, FAHA;
Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS, FAHA; Dilip K. Pandey, MD, PhD, FAHA;
Mathew J. Reeves, PhD, FAHA; Carlos J. Rodriguez, MD, MPH, FAHA;
Wayne Rosamond, PhD, FAHA; Paul D. Sorlie, PhD; Joel Stein, MD;
Amytis Towfighi, MD; Tanya N. Turan, MD, MSCR, FAHA; Salim S. Virani, MD, PhD;
Daniel Woo, MD, MS, FAHA; Robert W. Yeh, MD, MSc, FAHA; Melanie B. Turner, MPH; on behalf of
the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee
Table of Contents
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e39
1. About These Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e46
2. Cardiovascular Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e49
Health Behaviors
3. Smoking/Tobacco Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e68
4. Physical Inactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e78
5. Nutrition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e89
6. Overweight and Obesity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e110
Health Factors and Other Risk Factors
7. Family History and Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e121
8. High Blood Cholesterol and Other Lipids . . . . . . . e127
9. High Blood Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e135
10. Diabetes Mellitus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e148
11. Metabolic Syndrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e162
12. Chronic Kidney Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e178
Cardiovascular Conditions/Diseases
13. Total Cardiovascular Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . e184
14. Stroke (Cerebrovascular Disease) . . . . . . . . . . . e204
15. Congenital Cardiovascular Defects and
Kawasaki Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e235
16. Disorders of Heart Rhythm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e247
17. Sudden Cardiac Arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e268
18. Subclinical Atherosclerosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e279
19. Coronary Heart Disease, Acute Coronary
Syndrome, and Angina Pectoris . . . . . . . . . . . . e292
20. Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure . . . . . . . . . . . e307
21. Valvular, Venous, and Aortic Diseases . . . . . . . . . e316
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The American Heart Association requests that this document be cited as follows: Mozaffarian D, Benjamin EJ, Go AS, Arnett DK, Blaha MJ, Cushman
M, Das SR, de Ferranti S, Després J-P, Fullerton HJ, Howard VJ, Huffman MD, Isasi CR, Jiménez MC, Judd SE, Kissela BM, Lichtman JH, Lisabeth LD,
Liu S, Mackey RH, Magid DJ, McGuire DK, Mohler ER III, Moy CS, Muntner P, Mussolino ME, Nasir K, Neumar RW, Nichol G, Palaniappan L, Pandey
DK, Reeves MJ, Rodriguez CJ, Rosamond W, Sorlie PD, Stein J, Towfighi A, Turan TN, Virani SS, Woo D, Yeh RW, Turner MB; on behalf of the American
Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. Heart disease and stroke statistics—2016 update: a report from the American
Heart Association. Circulation. 2016;133:e38-e360.
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