Driven by rising rates in high blood pressure, nearly 6 in 10 women in the U.S. will have some type of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the next 25 years, according to a new scientific statement published today in Circulation, the peer-reviewed, flagship journal of the American Heart Association, a global force changing the future of health for all.
Forecasting the Burden of Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke in the United States Through 2050 in Women: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association builds upon prior work by the Association to assess projections of the future cardiovascular disease prevalence among women and the subsequent economic burden based on the current landscape.
"One in every three women will die from cardiovascular disease - maybe it's your grandmother, or your mother or your daughter," said the American Heart Association volunteer chair of the statement writing group, Karen E. Joynt Maddox, M.D., M.P.H., FAHA, a professor of medicine and public health and the co-director of the Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
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