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Heart disease constitutes 17% of the overall national health spending. The country can no longer afford to spend this large sum of money that it does not have, on heart disease that is now considered largely preventable.

The above slide demonstrates why cardiovascular disease consumes a tremendous amount of healthcare dollars - its natural course is one of silent progression and recurring cardiovascular events - heart attacks and strokes. The treatments of very advanced disease - hospitalizations, stents, heart bypass, are very expensive. For over a decade now, optimal medical therapy using inexpensive generic medications, has been available to prevent or delay most of these events.

The above slide calculates how many lives could be saved if just 60% of high risk (those with 10 Year Framingham Risk Score of over 20%) adult Americans received optimal medical therapy for their risk factors. It also compares the magnitude of mortality reduction with primary and secondary prevention (optimal medical therapy) compared to more expensive stents and heart bypass.

 

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