US health System Not Helping Heart Disease

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/01/us-heart-usa-idUSTRE70N4JD20110201

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"Although we're making some progress, the United States is failing to prevent the leading cause of death -- cardiovascular disease -- despite the existence of low-cost, highly effective treatments," said CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden.

He said 100 million adults -- nearly half the U.S. adult population -- have either high blood pressure or unhealthy cholesterol levels.

"In fact, more than 80 percent of people who have out-of-control blood pressure or out-of-control cholesterol do have public or private health insurance," Frieden told reporters in a telephone briefing.

Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of people in most developed countries. Diet and exercise can prevent heart disease and dozens of drugs are on the market to control the two most common causes -- high blood pressure and unhealthy cholesterol levels.

But the CDC report, based on the most recent available survey data, finds that one-third of adults have high blood pressure, a third of them do not get treated for it and half do not have it fully under control.

The figures are worse for unhealthy cholesterol levels. A third of U.S. adults have poor cholesterol readings, half of them are not treated for it and two-thirds do not have their cholesterol fully controlled.

but then we have corporate med & pharma just a step away, to cure what ails us:puke: