American Heart Association reports that cardiovascular costs will reach an estimated $324.1 billion in the US in 2010.
The American Heart Association (AHA) Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee reports that the US will experience record-setting costs for treating heart disease and stroke in 2010. Costs for cardiovascular care will soar to $503.2 billion, with direct costs estimated at $324.1 billion, keeping cardiovascular disease as the #1 healthcare cost in the US. The AHA Committee comments that the rising costs are in part due to poor control of modifiable risk factors, including the rampant problem of physical inactivity (an estimated 59% of adults in the 2008 National Health Interview Survey were sedentary), and obesity reaching 34% prevalence in adults.
Donald Lloyd-Jones, Robert J. Adams, Todd M. Brown, Mercedes Carnethon, Shifan Dai, Giovanni De Simone, T. Bruce Ferguson, Earl Ford, Karen Furie, Cathleen Gillespie, Alan Go, Kurt Greenlund, Nancy Haase, Susan Hailpern, P. Michael Ho, Virginia Howard, Brett Kissela, Steven Kittner, Daniel Lackland, Lynda Lisabeth, Ariane Marelli, Mary M. McDermott, James Meigs, Dariush Mozaffarian, Michael Mussolino, Graham Nichol, Veronique Roger, Wayne Rosamond, Ralph Sacco, Paul Sorlie, Randell Stafford, Thomas Thom, Sylvia Wasserthiel-Smoller, Nathan D. Wong, Judith Wylie-Rosett on behalf of the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. “Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2010 Update. A Report From the American Heart Association.” Circulation, Dec 2009; doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.192667.
