Friday, April 20, 2012
ATVB 2012 Final Program & Abstracts
|ATVB Distinguished Lecture: Adipocytes, Inflammation and Atherosclerosis - What`s the Connection? |
Linda K. Curtiss, Ph.D., FAHA, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif.
- CVD affects more than 36 percent of U.S. adults and accounts for more than 30 percent of annual mortality in the United States.
- Lifetime risk for developing CVD at age 40 is two in three for men and one in two for women.
- On average, more than 2,200 Americans die of CVD each day, an average of one death every 39 seconds. CVD claims more lives each year than cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease and accidents combined.
- About every 34 seconds, an American will have a heart attack. Every 40 seconds someone has a stroke.