About 12.6 million Americans currently have heart disease.

This year, 1.1 million Americans will have a heart attack.

A quarter of Americans suffer from some form of cardiovascular disease. Every 34 seconds, an American will die from cardiovascular disease.

No other disease claims that women have as much life as cardiovascular disease. An American woman dies every minute due to cardiovascular disease.

There will be about 700,000 American strokes this year. This is every 45 seconds.

Heart disease is the biggest killer of Americans. It kills many Americans and becomes the next five causes of death.

If you are a smoker, one way to significantly reduce your heart disease is to quit smoking.

If you are a smoker in your thirties or forties, you are five times more likely to have heart disease than a non-smoker. Smoking can directly cause at least 20% of heart disease deaths.

Smoking is the leading cause of coronary heart disease, leading to a heart attack. It also increases the tendency of blood pressure and blood to clot.

In the United States, more than 440,000 people died prematurely from smoking.

In Australia, smoking kills more than 19,000 people each year, 40% of which die from heart and vascular disease.

Smokers are 70% more likely to have coronary heart disease than nonsmokers.

Smoking increases the risk of stroke by a factor of three.

Quitting smoking can raise your cholesterol levels.

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After one year of quitting smoking, you reduce your risk of heart disease by 50%.

Heart disease and smoking was originally published on Spring