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Cardiovascular disease data book
Cardiovascular disease data book
The Health of the people of New South Wales
Report of the Chief Health Officer
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- Cardiovascular diseases caused just over 16,200 deaths and just under 160,000 hospitalisations of NSW residents in each year. Coronary heart disease and stroke are the two major conditions contributing to this disease burden, followed by heart failure and peripheral vascular disease.
- Death rates, and numbers of deaths, from cardiovascular disease are higher in males than in females. Death rates are higher in outer regional and remote areas of NSW than in major cities.
- Death rates from cardiovascular diseases have more than halved since 1990, after adjusting for population ageing. This is due to both:
- - decreased incidence, associated with reductions in some risk factors, including smoking, saturated fats in the diet, and levels of blood pressure;
- - increased survival, as a result of improvements in medical and surgical treatment and follow-up care.
- Coronary heart disease caused just under 8,000 deaths in 2006, or about 22 deaths every day. Coronary heart disease was the principal reason for just over 54,000 hospitalisations in 2006-07.
- Stroke caused just over 4,250 deaths in NSW in 2006. Stroke was the principal reason for over 19,000 hospitalisations in 2006-07.
- Heart failure was the underlying cause just over 950 deaths in NSW in 2006 and a contributing cause in many more. Heart failure was the principal reason for just over 14,000 hospitalisations in 2006-07.
- Peripheral vascular disease caused 750 deaths in NSW in 2006. Peripheral vascular disease was the principal reason for just under 8,800 hospitalisations in 2006-07.
- If hospitalisation and death rates follow the same trend as the last 15 to 20 years, by 2017-18, hospitalisation rates for all cardiovascular diseases will be 15% lower than in 2006-07 and death rates will be 34% lower in 2017 than in 2006. The overall number of hospitalisations are however, projected to increase to around 176,000 by 2017-18 due to the ageing of the population. Despite this, the number of deaths is projected to fall to around 15,600 by 2017.
- In the treatment of coronary heart disease, the number of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PCTA) procedures (with and without stents) first exceeded the number of the more invasive coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures in 1999-00. Around 9,900 PCTAs were performed in 2006-07, more than double the 4,100 CABGs.
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File link: Cardiovascular disease data book
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Type: Report
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Author Branch: Centre for Epidemiology & Research
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