Heart failure has a prevalence of 1–2% in developed countries which increases with age.
Heritability of CAD is estimated to be around 40% and is mainly the result of numerous common SNPs throughout the genome each of small effect size.
Hypertension is the main cause of stroke and cardiovascular disease and carries substantial health and economic burden globally. It is a growing problem in South Africa, where more than 25 percent of adults older than age thirty-five are hypertensive, and hypertension-related causes of death are estimated to account for three of the top ten causes of death.
Visceral adiposity has been associated with altered microstructural properties of white matter in adolescents.
Congenital heart disease (CHD) affects nearly 1% of – or about 40,000 – births per year in the United States.
Over the past several decades, the prevalence of obesity has doubled, with a concomitant increase in risk of associated cardiovascular complications.
