Heart Disease Statistics

Follow the links below to find statistics on heart disease, including rates of heart disease, risk factors, hospitalisation, total health system costs and mortality.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the National Heart Foundation of Australia provide statistics on cardiovascular disease.

Follow the links below to find statistics on heart disease.

Updated May 2009

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Title:	Smoking and heart disease
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Cigarette smoking is a major cause of heart attack, stroke and peripheral arterial disease. Nearly 40 per cent of all people who die from smoking tobacco do so due to heart and blood vessel disease. A smoker's excess risk of heart attack reduces rapidly after only one year of not smoking.
Date:	Sep 2008

Title:	Diuretics for heart failure
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	Chronic heart failure (CHF) (also called congestive heart failure, cardiac failure and heart failure) is a disorder in which the heart loses its ability to pump blood efficiently throughout the body. The oxygen and nutrients in the blood provide the bod...
Date:	Jun 2008

Title:	Heart Health
Publisher:	HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:	Links to information on heart diseases and their prevention, treatment, risk factors, support services and statistics.
Date:	Jan 2008

Title:	Surgical versus medical treatment with cyclooxygenase inhibitors for symptomatic patent ductus arteriosus in preterm infants
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	The way an infant's blood is circulated changes soon after birth. Initially, premature infants have an opening (a patent ductus arteriosus, PDA) between the large blood vessel to the lungs and the large blood vessel that carries oxygenated blood to the ...
Date:	Oct 2007

Title:	Transmyocardial laser revascularization versus medical therapy for refractory angina
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	The effectiveness and safety of a surgical intervention using a laser device directly on the heart surface for patients suffering from angina who are not suitable for other interventions...
Date:	Jun 2007

Title:	Aboriginal and torres strait islander people with coronary heart disease - summary report
Publisher:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:	This summary presents the key points detailed in 'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with coronary heart disease: further perspectives on health status and treatment'.
Date:	Sep 2006

Title:	Aboriginal and torres strait islander people with coronary heart disease : further perspectives on health status and treatment
Publisher:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:	This report builds on existing information on disparities between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians in the health status and treatment of coronary heart disease.
Date:	Sep 2006

Title:	Multiple risk factor interventions for primary prevention of coronary heart disease
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	Primary prevention programmes for cardiovascular diseases in many countries attempt to reduce mortality and morbidity due to coronary heart disease through risk factor modification. It is widely believed that multiple risk factor intervention using coun...
Date:	Aug 2006

Title:	Clinical service organisation for heart failure
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) are often admitted to hospital as an emergency. The authors looked at 16 clinical trials that tested different ways of organising the care of CHF patients after they leave hospital. Only one of these trials was ...
Date:	Feb 2005

Title:	Phosphodiesterase III inhibitors for heart failure
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	A number of options are available to treat symptomatic chronic heart failure. These include ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers and spironolactone, which result in an increase of life expectancy. Another strategy is to increase the strength of the pumping act...
Date:	Nov 2004

Title:	Rheumatic heart disease: all but forgotten in Australia except among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Publisher:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:	This bulletin describes the population patterns of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Australia today using data obtained from regional registers and national databases.
Date:	Aug 2004

Title:	Psychological interventions for coronary heart disease
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	Stress management training aims to help people cope with stress. It is often included in rehabilitation for people following heart attack or cardiac surgery. The aim is to reduce stress, often apparent through high levels of anxiety and depression, and ...
Date:	Feb 2004

Title:	Guidelines for pre-hospital administration of fibrinolytic therapy by New Zealand general practitioners
Publisher:	Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand
Description:	These guidelines have been developed in consultation with the Ministry of Health (NZ) to ensure equity of access to fibrinolytic therapy (previously known as thrombolytic therapy) throughout New Zealand.
Date:	Jan 2004

Title:	Secondary prevention and rehabilitation after coronary events or stroke
Publisher:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:	This paper identifies gaps and deficiencies in our knowledge in relation to secondary prevention and rehabilitation after coronary heart disease and stroke.
Date:	Sep 2003

Title:	Smoking cessation for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	Smoking is harmful for the heart and circulation. People who have had a heart attack or cardiac surgery are at increased risk of further life-threatening heart problems, including death from heart attack. The review found strong evidence that quitting s...
Date:	Aug 2003

Title:	Epidemic of coronary heart disease and its treatment in Australia
Publisher:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:	This is the first national report to examine in detail admissions to hospital for heart attack and acute care invasive treatments, such as cardiac catheterisation, percutaneous coronary intervention, and coronary artery bypass surgery.
Date:	Sep 2002

Title:	Coronary angioplasty in Australia 1996
Publisher:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,National Heart Foundation of Australia
Description:	This report provides details of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) as performed in Australia in 1996. It is the only national compilation of information on all PTCA procedures performed in that year and is based on data supplied directly by cardiology units.
Date:	Aug 2002

Title:	Coronary angioplasty in Australia 1999
Publisher:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:	Coronary angioplasty in Australia 1999 provides details of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) as performed in Australia in 1999. The report provides information on patterns and trends in the use of the technique, its indications, complications and success rates, and monitors the uptake of stenting, atherectomy and laser angioplasty.
Date:	May 2002

Title:	The WHO MONICA study, Australia, 1984-1993: a summary of the Newcastle and Perth MONICA projects
Publisher:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:	The report documents rates and trends of coronary events, data on the use of medical treatment before, during and after hospitalisation (including information on drug treatments), and population levels of the major risk factors of cardiovascular disease.
Date:	Oct 2001

Title:	Coronary angioplasty in Australia 1995
Publisher:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,National Heart Foundation of Australia
Description:	Report providing details of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) as performed in Australia in 1995. It provides information on patterns and trends in the use of the technique, its indications, complications and success rates, and monitors the uptake of stenting, atherectomy and laser angioplasty.
Date:	Oct 2001

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