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Do you die from cardiovascular diseases?
According to ISTAT data from 2017, in Italy cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are responsible for 35.8% of all deaths (32.5% in men and 38.8% in women); 10.4% of all deaths was attributed to ischemic heart disease (11.3% in men and 9.6% in women) and 9.2% to cerebrovascular events (7.6% in men and 10.7% in women).
How many people have a high and very high cardiovascular risk in Italy?
A recent Italian study demonstrated how in a cohort of approximately 7000 subjects aged between 49 and 70 years, 15.1% could be defined as at high cardiovascular risk and 19.9% at very high cardiovascular risk. According to the risk tables developed with the CUORE Project algorithm https://www.cuore.iss.it/valutazione/calc-rischio
Translating these data to the general population, it means that approximately 4.68 million subjects are at high cardiovascular risk and 6.17 million at very high cardiovascular risk
Palmieri L, Panico S, Vanuzzo D, et al.; Research Group of the CUORE Project. The assessment of absolute global cardiovascular risk: the individual score of the CUORE Project. Ann Ist Super Sanita 2004;40:393-9.
