Impacts of Heart Diseases In Canada

With a 60% higher chance from a high genetic risk level, this translates to a heart disease estimated to be 8 out of 100.

Smoking accounted for nearly half of all Canadians under the age of 45 years who died from coronary heart disease.

12 Canadian adults age 20 and over with diagnosed heart disease die

Obesity raises the risk of contracting heart disease by 49%, and with a higher BMI, the risk increases.

65 percent of people with diabetes will die from heart disease or stroke of some sort.

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One person dies every 36 seconds of cardiovascular disease in Canada. Around 655,000 Canada die every year from heart disease—one of every four deaths.

Collected between 2001 and 2014 for trends over time between heart failure and different occupational risk factors: hours worked, physical fitness at work, and type of occupation.