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FACTS:
• CVD made up 16.6 million, or one-third, of global deaths in 2001.
• Around 80% of CVD deaths took place in low and middle-income countries.
• By 2010, CVD will be the leading cause of death in developing countries.
• At least 20 million people survive heart attacks and strokes every year; many require
continuing costly clinical care.
• Heart disease has no geographic, gender or socio-economic boundaries.
individual actions to reduce major risk factors such as high OTHER CVDs
blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity and smoking. (3.9 MILLION)
HEART DISEASES
And these are no longer only diseases of the developed (7.2 MILLION)
CEREBROVASCULAR
world: some 80% of all CVD deaths worldwide took place DISEASE
in developing, low and middle-income countries, while (5.5 MILLION)
CVD affects people in their mid-life years, undermining the SEAR (3.8m) 45-59 60-69 70-79 80+
socioeconomic development, not only of affected WPR (3.7m) 45-59 60-69 70-79 80+
individuals, but families and nations. Lower socieconomic
25% 50% 75%
groups generally have a greater prevalence of risk factors,
WO R L D H E A LT H O R G A N I Z AT I O N
GLOBAL STRATEGY ON
DIET, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CVD)