Vascular Disease Statistics

Follow the links below to find facts and figures on vascular disease, including rates of disease, hospitalisation, total health system costs and mortality.

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Updated September 2011

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Title:   Vascular Health
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to information about vascular health and vascular diseases, including prevention, risk factors, treatment, support services and statistics.
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Cardiovascular disease: Australian facts 2011
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   In many ways cardiovascular disease (CVD) can be considered Australia's most costly disease. It costs more lives than any other disease and has the greatest level of health expenditure. It also imposes a burden of disease, measured in terms of disability and premature death, second only to cancer.
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Cardiovascular disease
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The term cardiovascular disease (CVD) refers to diseases of the heart and blood vessels. It is the leading cause of death in Australia.
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   AusDiab
Publisher:   Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
Description:   The Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle (AusDiab) study is the largest Australian longitudinal population-based study examining the natural history of diabetes, pre-diabetes (in which glucose metabolism is impaired but not to the level to cause diabetes), heart disease and kidney disease.
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   Women and heart disease: summary
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,Heart Foundation
Description:   Cardiovascular disease is Australia's biggest killer. This report provides a summary of cardiovascular disease and its impact on the health of Australian women.from data collected.
Date:   Jun 2010
Title:   Women and heart disease: cardiovascular profile of women in Australia
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   This report focuses on cardiovascular disease and its impact on the health of Australian women, who may not be aware of how significant a threat this disease is to them. The report presents the latest data on prevalence, deaths, disability, hospitalisations, services, treatments, risk factors and expenditure, as well as comparisons to other important diseases among women.
Date:   Jun 2010
Title:   Respiratory and cardovascular diseases and cancer among residents in the Hunter New England area health service
Publisher:   NSW Department of Health
Description:   This report focuses on those diseases and causes of death that have been found to be associated with exposure to air pollutants. Analysis has also been undertaken on some diseases about which the community of the Hunter New England Area Health Service (HNEAHS) of New South Wales(NSW) has expressed a concern.
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Cardiovascular disease mortality: trends at different ages
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   Despite a dramatic reduction since the late 1960s, cardiovascular disease remains the largest cause of death in Australia. This report examines recent data to determine if the observed decrease in cardiovascular disease deaths since the 1960s is shared across disease sub-types and among different population groups.
Date:   Apr 2010
Title:   Smoking and heart disease
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Cigarette smoking is a major cause of heart attack, stroke and peripheral arterial disease. Nearly 40 per cent of all people who die from smoking tobacco do so due to heart and blood vessel disease. A smoker's excess risk of heart attack reduces rapidly after only one year of not smoking.
Date:   Mar 2010
Title:   Cardiovascular medicines and primary health care: a regional analysis
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   Cardiovascular medicines and primary health care: a regional analysis shows how the supply of cardiovascular medicines and primary health-care services differs across regions in Australia. This report examines the complex relationship between cardiovascular diseases, remoteness and the supply of cardiovascular medicines and primary health-care services.
Date:   Mar 2010
Title:   Prevention of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease: targeting risk factors
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   Cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD) account for around a quarter of the burden of disease in Australia, and just under two-thirds of all deaths. These three diseases often occur together and share risk factors, such as physical inactivity, overweight and obesity, and high blood pressure.
Date:   Dec 2009
Title:   High blood pressure overview - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   High blood pressure is common in Australia. Although it often causes no symptoms, it is a major contributor to heart attack and stroke.
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   Impact of falling cardiovascular disease death rates: deaths delayed and years of life extended
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   Death rates from CVD and CHD have declined dramatically in Australia since their peak in the mid 1960s. This report quantifies the number of lives saved since the peak and looks briefly at the age and sex population groups where the impact was likely to have been highest.
Date:   Apr 2009
Title:   Health care expenditure on cardiovascular diseases 2004-05
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   This report presents comparisons of allocated expenditure on cardiovascular disease over time and relative to other disease types.
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Undertreatment of rural people with cardiovascular disease
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   A report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) shows that drugs and some interventions for cardiovascular disease are underused in rural areas.
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   Cardiovascular disease and its associated risk factors in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2004-05
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   Cardiovascular disease is a major health problem in Australia, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples carrying the greatest burden of illness and death from this disease. Up-to-date estimates on the prevalence of cardiovascular disease and its associated risk factors are important for monitoring their impact on the health of Indigenous Australians.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Comorbidity of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease in Australia
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   Cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease are three common and serious illnesses in Australia. These three diseases have shared common risk factors, and often occur together. This report focuses on examining the current extent of comorbidity of the conditions from three perspectives: self-reported prevalence, hospitalisation and deaths.
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Medicines for cardiovascular health: are they used appropriately?
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   Covers trends in prescription and supply of these medicines, patterns of supply by geographic area and patient socioeconomic level, whether patients take medicines as intended, adverse events associated with these medicines, initiatives to improve the quality of use of medicines, and government expenditure.
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular disease in Australia: current picture and trends since 1992
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   It has been well established in Australia that people who are socioeconomically disadvantaged experience higher rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality than other Australians. Further, there is evidence that the differential has widened.
Date:   Aug 2006
Title:   Cardiovascular disease in Australia
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   Through the links on this page you can access general information on the impact of cardiovascular disease in Australia, its major risk factors, and information on cardiovascular procedures.
Date:   May 2006

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