2.4 Blood pressure and heart disease

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Cardiovascular disease figures

• In the Netherlands there are about 1.5 million people with a chronic cardiovascular disease.

• Every day 101 people die from cardiovascular disease: 50 men and 51 women.
  
• Every day, about 650 people are hospitalized because of cardiovascular disease.
  
• Every day, 24 people under the age of 75 die from cardiovascular disease.
  

Figures Heart attack

• In 2020, about 34,000 people in our country ended up in hospital with a heart attack.
  
• Every day, about 93 people are hospitalized with a heart attack.
  
• Every day, an average of 13 people die of a heart attack: 8 men and 5 women.