Global prevalence of cardiovascular diseases by gender and age during 2010–2019

Abstract

IntroductionThe aim of this work is to evaluate the global, gender, and age-related cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden during 2010-2019. It has been studied not only the global trend in the prevalence of CVDs but also whether there is a statistically significant difference between genders and between ages during 2010 - 2019.Material and methodsThe statistical methods used to analyze the results of this study are the independent samples t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) test.ResultsThe global prevalence rate of CVDs was increased from 0.061% in 2010 to 0.070% in 2019. There is a statistically significant difference between the prevalence rates in the two genders in all cardiovascular diseases except atrial fibrillation and flutter. Females have the highest prevalence rates of CVDs worldwide. Moreover, females have statistically significant the highest prevalence rates of stroke, hypertensive heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, non-rheumatic valvular heart disease, endocarditis, peripheral artery disease and other cardiovascular and circulatory diseases globally. On the contrary, males have statistically significant the highest prevalence rates of cardiomyopathy and myocarditis, and ischemic heart disease globally. Moreover, rheumatic heart disease has statistically significant higher prevalence rate in the age group of 25–49 years than the other age groups.ConclusionsThe significance of this study is not only that it has succeeded in achieving to evaluate the global, gender, and age-related cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden finding the statistically significant differences between them, but it is also the only study to achieve this goal in the last decade.