Most people are listening to their statistics. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death, ranking second or third. But what about other countries? Do their statistics resemble statistics in your country? Is cardiovascular disease prevalent in New Zealand like Latin America? Is it the major cause of death in Japan as much as that of Middle Eastern Crescent?
What is the worldwide spread of cardiovascular disease?
World epidemic of cardiovascular disease
The global epidemic of cardiovascular disease is a big topic given that there are many different diseases in this large umbrella category.
However, the World Health Organization (WHO) has provided certain world health statistics since 1990 (Murray CJL & Lopez AD, 1996). Statistics are provided for established market economies that are Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, and the United States. In addition, the WHO is a group of former socialist regions, India, China and other Asia and island regions, Sub-Saharan Africa region, Latin America and Caribbean groups, Middle Eastern crescent areas.
From these statistics, we can see the worldwide spread of cardiovascular disease in three categories: coronary heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.
Coronary heart disease
Coronary heart disease with angina usually manifests as chest pain. Pain is caused by arterial obstruction and deprives oxygen from the heart.
The global prevalence of coronary heart disease seems to follow a lifestyle with rapidly changing stress. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common in established market economies. In these merging countries, at the time of the study, 8.2 million people suffered from this disease. India has reached 6.6 million. In former socialist countries, the number was 5.8 million people. The region with the lowest prevalence of coronary heart disease was sub-Saharan Africa. This may be due, at least in part, to the slowness of the area's life.
stroke
The global morbidity of cardiovascular disease that manifests as a stroke also seems to follow a rapidly changing lifestyle with stress.
In this study, 9.5 million strokes were detected in the established market economy and 1.3 million strokes were detected in sub-Saharan Africa. Interestingly, China was the second most frequent in this category, with 7.4 million stroke patients. However, China was fourth with CHD and 4.5 million.
Diabetes
The established market economy again paved the way for a global epidemic of cardiovascular disease diagnosed by diabetes. At the time of the study, 37.9 million people in these countries had diabetes. The second winner was India, but the number was less than half of the 1.181 million. There were only 3.9 million cases in sub-Saharan Africa.
In summary
See the global prevalence of cardiovascular disease and let me know why. Why is the prevalence of cardiovascular disease high in rich areas, the areas that possess the best region among the world's medical experts? Why are there more people stroke and diabetes than in African villages in metropolitan areas of established market economy?
Amateurs can only conclude that we are pessimistically lacking in applying our knowledge to prevention for all of our knowledge of cardiovascular disease.
Caution: The author is not a medical expert, but the information in this article is provided for educational purposes only.
