Heart disease by the numbers

We know that heart disease is deadly — but have you seen the numbers?

Heart disease

• 2,200 people die each day in the U.S. from heart disease.
• Each year, about 800,000 die of heart disease.
• 1 in every 4 deaths in the U.S. is from heart disease.
• 1 in 3 adults in the U.S. have some form of heart disease.
• Heart disease and stroke cost roughly 312.6 billion each year in health-related costs

Heart attack

• Every 44 seconds, someone in the U.S. has a heart attack.
• 3% of people in the U.S. have had a heart attack. That’s about 8 million people.
• About 715,000 people in the U.S. have a heart attack each year.
• 525,000 of those are first-time heart attacks.
• 190,000 of these people will go on to have another one.

Stroke

• Every 4 minutes, someone in the U.S. dies of stroke.
• Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. for both men and women.
• Each year, more than 795,000 people in the U.S. will have a stroke.
• Nearly 130,000 of those people will die of their stroke.
• Stroke accounts for 1 in every 19 deaths in the U.S.
• 185,000 people who survive their first stroke will have another.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention