Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2013 Update

Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and other government agencies, brings together the most up-to-date statistics on heart disease, stroke, other vascular diseases, and their risk factors and presents them in its Heart Disease and Stroke Statistical Update*The Statistical Update is a valuable resource for researchers, clinicians, healthcare policy makers, media professionals, the lay public, and many others who seek the best national data available on heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular disease-related morbidity and mortality and the risks, quality of care, medical procedures and…

• AH
  American Heart Association
• CF
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• NH
  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• NI
  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke