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Shocking Stats
- every 7 minutes someone dies from heart disease or stroke in Canada
- 30 % or 69,000 deaths in 2006 were due to cardiovascular disease
- heart disease and strokes cost the Canadian economy more than $ 22.2 billion every year
- 45,000 cardiac arrests occur in Canada every year; 85% occur in homes and public places; less than 5 % survive if it is outside of a hospital
- stroke is the 3rd leading cause of death in Canada every year
- a woman with type 2 diabetes has 8-fold greater of heart disease than without
- 90 % of diabetes cases are type II
- smoking contirbutes to 37,000 deaths / year in Canada
- 6,300 non-smokers die every year from exposure to second hand smoke
- in 2003 there were 20.560 new cases of lung cancer
- in 2004 17,653 deaths were due to lung cancer in Canada, which is the leading respiratory dease related death
- in 80-90 % of the cases of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD) smoking is factor.
- in 2005 754,700 people were diagnosed with COPD in Canada