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According to World Health Organization, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of death globally. An estimated 17.5 million people died from cardiovascular diseases in 2005, representing 30 % of all global deaths. Of these deaths, 7.6 million were due to heart attacks and 5.7 million were due to stroke. WHO projects that by 2015 an estimated 20 million people will die from CVD every year, mainly from heart attacks and strokes.
Estimates for the year 2005 are that 81 million people in the United States suffer from one or more forms of cardiovascular disease (CVD). It means that nearly 2,400 Americans die of CVD each day, an average of one death every 36 seconds. According to the American Heart Association, over $283 billion were spent in 2007 in hospital costs, medical professional services and drug costs to treat CVD, and $151 billion of lost productivity results from morbidity and mortality, totaling $393 billion related to cardiovascular disease in the United States.
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