Social and economic impact of ischemic coronary heart disease in adult patients.

Livan Cruz, FNP student

Miami Regional University

Clinical Integration. Course MSN6400

Instructor: Dr. Felix Ferrer.

Social and economic impact of ischemic coronary heart disease in adult patients.

Introduction

Cardiovascular diseases, like other chronic diseases, have accompanied human beings in their existence for several centuries. There are written records that describe angina pectoris in the year 1772 by the English doctor William Heberden. By then it was impossible to think that ischemic heart diseases would become the leading cause of death in most countries on the planet. Social and technological development, the adaptive ways of man to new, much more sedentary ways of life, dietary changes that replaced natural foods with processed foods and living conditions related to emotional stress have been some factors related to the high incidence and prevalence of diseases. atherosclerotic diseases of the coronary arteries. Health statistics related to ischemic heart disease remain alarming worldwide despite some decline over the past decade. Men have surpassed women in statistics including deaths related to this disease. Alarming data can be found such as the death of approximately 2,000 people per day from cardiovascular diseases or one death every 34 seconds in the United States alone. Developed countries have been much more vulnerable to this type of disease, Europe reports 47% of deaths related to the heart alone. The United States reports 15.4 million sick people, resulting in 874,613 deaths in one year. This may represent an economic impact approaching $300 million dollars invested in costs and productivity losses of more than $150 million. (Şahin & İlgün, 2022).