Heart Disease
(Data are for the U.S.)
Morbidity
- Number of noninstitutionalized adults with diagnosed heart disease: 26.5 million
- Percent of noninstitutionalized adults with diagnosed heart disease: 11.5%
Health care use
Ambulatory care
- Number of visits to physician offices with ischemic heart disease as primary diagnosis: 12.8 million
- Number of visits to physician offices with heart disease, excluding ischemic, as primary diagnosis: 14.9 million
Source: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2009 Summary Tables, table 13 [PDF - 382 KB]
- Number of visits to hospital outpatient departments with heart disease, excluding ischemic, as primary diagnosis: 1.3 million
Hospital inpatient care
- Number of discharges with heart disease as first-listed diagnosis: 4.0 million
- Average length of stay: 4.6 days
Home health care
- Number of current patients with heart disease as primary diagnosis: 135,700 (2007)
- Percent of current patients with heart disease as primary diagnosis: 9.3% (2007)
Hospice care
- Number of hospice care discharges with heart disease as primary diagnosis: 117,400 (2007)
- Percent of hospice care discharges with heart disease as primary diagnosis: 11.2% (2007)
Nursing home care
- Number of residents with heart disease: 635,000
- Percent of residents with heart disease: 42.6%
Source: 2004 National Nursing Home Survey, Residents, table 33B [PDF - 719 KB]
Mortality
- Number of deaths: 597,689
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 193.6
- Cause of death rank: 1
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2010, table 9, 10 [PDF - 3.1 MB]
More data
- Average length of stay in nonfederal short-stay hospitals, by sex, age, and selected first-listed diagnosis Health, United States, 2011, table 106 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
- Death rates for diseases of heart, by sex, race, Hispanic origin, and age Health, United States, 2011, table 30 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
- Discharges in nonfederal short-stay hospitals, by sex, age, and selected first-listed diagnosis Health, United States, 2011, table 104 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
- Discharge rate in nonfederal short-stay hospitals, by sex, age, and selected first-listed diagnosis Health, United States, 2011, table 105 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
- Hospitalization for Congestive Heart Failure: United States, 2000–2010
- Search Tables for Heart Disease in Health Data Interactive
- Years of potential life lost before age 75 for selected causes of death, by sex, race, and Hispanic origin Health, United States, 2011, table 25 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
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