Statistics

Coronary Artery Disease is the single most common cause of morbidity and mortality and loss of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) worldwide. A large percentage of these deaths is found in low and middle-income countries. This is responsible for nearly 7 million deaths and 129 million DALYs annually. (1)

Overall, the age-adjusted rate of hospitalization due to Myocardial Infarction was 215/100,000 individuals between the years 1979 and 1981, and this number only increased till 1987, stabilized in the next few decades, and then started to decline from the year 1996 onward, reaching 242/100,000 individuals in 2005. (2)

Worldwide, the highest number of increases in the incidence of cardiac events has been in Latin America, the Middle East, and, to a lesser degree, the Far East, but it shows some regional variation. The deaths from CAD were projected to increase in developing countries (India, China, Latin America, Sub-Sahara Africa, and the Far East) from an estimated 9 million in 1990 to 19 million in 2010. (3)

Figure: Age-related Prevalence of CAD (4)

References:

 (1) Ralapanawa, U., & Sivakanesan, R. (2021). Epidemiology and the Magnitude of Coronary Artery Disease and Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Narrative Review. Journal of epidemiology and global health, 11(2), 169–177. https://doi.org/10.2991/jegh.k.201217.001

(2) Dai, X., Busby-Whitehead, J., & Alexander, K. P. (2016). Acute coronary syndrome in older adults. Journal of geriatric cardiology: JGC, 13(2), 101–108. https://doi.org/10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2016.02.012

(3) Ferreira-González I. (2014). The epidemiology of coronary heart disease. Revista espanola de cardiologia (English ed.), 67(2), 139–144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rec.2013.10.002

(4) image from https://www.nature.com/articles/nrcardio.2017.154

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