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Mortality Rate of Coronary Artery Disease

Coronary artery disease is a disease that rarely displays symptoms before striking and primarily affects those in later stages of life. Those two distinctions push the mortality rate of coronary artery disease to a dominant position.

  1. Significance

    • Untreated coronary artery disease (CAD) leads to heart attack and often death. It is the most common form of cardiovascular disease (CVD), making it the most significant cause in the global deaths of 17.1 million people each year, according to the World Health Organization.

    Identification

    • CAD and CVD dominate as cause of death in the United States. According to the Cleveland Clinic, around 13 million people have a history of coronary artery disease and 7.2 million have suffered a myocardial infarction. Nearly 2,500 Americans die of CVD every day.

    Sex

    • Males suffer the results of CAD, a heart attack, more frequently than females but women are more likely to die. Thirty-nine percent of women die from the disease as compared to 31 percent of men.

    Time Frame

    • The mortality rate is significantly higher in older individuals with CAD. More than 83 percent of people who die of coronary heart disease are 65 or older.

    Race

    • CAD is 24 percent more likely to kill African-American women than caucasian females. Nearly all minority races in the United States face high CAD mortality rates with higher incidences of diabetes and obesity believed to be the chief cause.

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