Heart Disease
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Data are for the U.S.
Morbidity
- Number of adults with diagnosed heart disease: 28.4 million
- Percent of adults with diagnosed heart disease: 11.7%
Physician office visits
- Number of visits to physician offices with heart disease, excluding ischemic, as primary diagnosis: 18.6 million
Outpatient department visits
- Number of visits to hospital outpatient departments with heart disease, excluding ischemic, as primary diagnosis: 1.9 million
Emergency department visits
- Number of visits with a principal hospital discharge diagnosis of heart disease, excluding ischemic: 748,000
- Number of visits with a principal hospital discharge diagnosis of ischemic heart disease: 267,000
Mortality
- Number of deaths: 614,348
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 192.7
- Cause of death rank: 1
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2014, tables 9, 10 [PDF – 4.4 MB]
More data
- Cost of hospital discharges with common hospital operating room procedures by age and selected principal procedure Health, United States, 2016, table 96 [PDF – 9.8 MB]
- Death rates for diseases of heart, by sex, race, Hispanic origin, and age Health, United States, 2016, table 22 [PDF – 9.8 MB]
- Years of potential life lost before age 75 for selected causes of death, by sex, race, and Hispanic origin Health, United States, 2016, table 18 [PDF – 9.8 MB]
- Changes in the Leading Cause of Death: Recent Patterns in Heart Disease and Cancer Mortality
- Recent Trends in Heart Failure-related Mortality: United States, 2000-2014
- National Hospital Discharge Survey: 2010 table, Average length of stay and days of care – Number and rate of discharges by first-listed diagnostic categories [PDF – 58 KB]
- Hospitalization for Congestive Heart Failure: United States, 2000–2010
- Page last reviewed: January 19, 2017
- Page last updated: May 3, 2017
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