Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics2009 Update. A Report From the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee Donald Lloyd-Jones, Robert Adams, Mercedes Carnethon, Giovanni De Simone, T. Bruce Ferguson, Katherine Flegal, Earl Ford, Karen Furie, Alan Go, Kurt Greenlund, Nancy Haase, Susan Hailpern, Michael Ho, Virginia Howard, Brett Kissela, Steven Kittner, Daniel Lackland, Lynda Lisabeth, Ariane Marelli, Mary McDermott, James Meigs, Dariush Mozaffarian, Graham Nichol, Christopher O'Donnell, Veronique Roger, Wayne Rosamond, Ralph Sacco, Paul Sorlie, Randell Stafford, Julia Steinberger, Thomas Thom, Sylvia Wasserthiel-Smoller, Nathan Wong, Judith Wylie-Rosett, Yuling Hong and American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee Circulation published online Dec 15, 2008; DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.191261 Circulation is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 72514 Copyright © 2008 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is located on the World Wide Web at: http://circ.ahajournals.org Subscriptions: Information about subscribing to Circulation is online at http://circ.ahajournals.org/subscriptions/ Permissions: Permissions & Rights Desk, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a division of Wolters Kluwer Health, 351 West Camden Street, Baltimore, MD 21202-2436. Phone: 410-528-4050. Fax: 410-528-8550. E-mail:
[email protected] Reprints: Information about reprints can be found online at http://www.lww.com/reprints Downloaded from circ.ahajournals.org by on December 17, 2008 AHA Statistical Update Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2009 Update A Report From the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee WRITING GROUP MEMBERS Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, FAHA; Robert Adams, MD, FAHA; Mercedes Carnethon, PhD, FAHA; Giovanni De Simone, MD; T.