Cardiovascular disease was found to be the number one cause of death in the world last year.
According to Health Day News, a research team at the University of Washington University School of Medicine in the United States analyzed the survey data over the past 30 years. Reported.
In addition, the countries with the highest number of cardiovascular deaths last year were China, India, Russia, the United States, and Indonesia.
On the other hand, the countries with the lowest cardiovascular deaths were France, Peru and Japan.
The total number of cardiovascular disease patients has nearly doubled from 275 million in 1990 to 523 million in 2019.
Among the deaths of cardiovascular disease last year, 9.6 million women and 8.9 million men were killed, and the death toll of the age group between the ages of 30 and 70 exceeded 6 million.
In addition, most deaths from cardiovascular disease last year were attributed to ischemic heart disease and stroke, which are caused by narrowing of blood vessels.
The findings of the research team at the University of Washington were published in the October issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association.
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