Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults

摘要

People who have cardiovascular disease (CVD) or a high CV risk (owing to hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, smoking, poor nutrition, obesity, or lack of physical activity) require early detection and management. In 2018, 30.3 million U.S. adults (12.1%) were diagnosed with CVD. In adults without disability, 12.8% were physically inactive; about 30 million adults had type 2 diabetes; and 39.6% of adults were obese. During office visits, CVD specialists wrote new prescriptions for CVD agents (antihy-perlipidemics, 5 % of visits; beta-adrenergic blockers, 6.1% of visits; calcium channel blockers, 6.2% of visits; ACE inhibitors, 8.1% of visits) and continued the use of more than 90% of CVD drugs previously prescribed. Risk Factors: Roughly 47% of adults had at least one of the three key risk factors for CVD (hypertension, 78 million; high LDL cholesterol, 1 million; smoking, 34.2 million). Men were more likely than women to have at least one of these risk factors. Hypertension was the most prevalent risk factor (24.8%) among all adults, and the difference between men and women (7.4% men vs. 4.1% women) was smallest (1.1%) for hypertension and greatest (35.3%) for coronary heart disease. With increasing age, the three risk factors had similar but disproportionate rates of increase.