Cardiovascular Diseases in Korea.
10.4070/kcj.1983.13.1.213
- Author:
Bong Jae SHIN
;
Seung Bin LIM
;
Tae Rim CHOI
;
Bang Hun LEE
;
Chung Kyun LEE
;
E Suk SOHN
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Arrhythmias, Cardiac;
Cardiomyopathies;
Cardiovascular Diseases*;
Coronary Disease;
Endocarditis;
Epidemiology;
Female;
Heart;
Heart Defects, Congenital;
Heart Diseases;
Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular;
Humans;
Hypertension;
Hypertension, Malignant;
Incidence;
Inpatients;
Internal Medicine;
Korea*;
Male;
Pericarditis;
Peripheral Vascular Diseases;
Postpartum Period;
Pulmonary Heart Disease;
Rheumatic Heart Disease
- From:Korean Circulation Journal
1983;13(1):213-223
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
In order to review the epidemiological data of cardiovascular diseases, statistical observation was made on the 7,271 patients with cardiovascular diseases who were treated in the Department of Internal Medicine, Han-Yang University Hospital during the 10 year period from May 1972 to December 1981. A. General Findings (1) Cardiovascular disease was seen in 18.6% out of a total 39,004 medical inpatients treated during this 10 year time span. (2) Incidences of cardiovascular disease seemed to increase in frequency in consecutive years, especially incidence of coronary heart disease and arrhythmia. (3) Incidence of cardiovascular disease occurred most frequently to patients in their fifth decade, and next most frequently to those in their sixth and fourth decade, in that order. (4) The overall ratio of male to female incidence of cardiovascular disease was 1:1. B. Specific Epidemiology (1) Hypertension was the most common form of cardiovascular problem, accounting for 52.9% of patients with cardiovascular disease and 9.9% of the total medical in-patients population. Incidence of hypertension occured most frequently in the fifth decade of life. It occured next most in the sixth and fourth decades, in that order. The male to female ratio of incidence of hypertension was 1:1. Patients with malignant hypertension made up 5.9% all hypertension patients. (2) Patients with rheumatic heart disease made up 6% of those patients with cardiovascular diseases. Male to female ratio of incidence of rheumatic heart disease was 1:2.4. The most common form of this disease was mitral valvular disease, but isolated aortic valvular disease proved to be rather uncommon in this study in Korea. (3) Coronary heart disease made up 15.5 % of all incidence of cardiovascular diseases. It occured most frequently to patients in their fifth and sixth decades, and in a male to female ratio of 1.5 to 1. (4) Congenital heart disease made of 0.9% of the total incidence of cardiovascular diseases with ventricular septal defect as the most common form of this disease. (5) The remaining forms of cardiovascular diseases diagnosed during the time span of this study were arrhythmia 16.8%, cor pulmonale 1.4%, cardiomyopathy 1.3%, peripheral vascular disease 1.0%, pericarditis 1.0%, thyrotoxic heart disease 0.8%, endocarditis 0.5%, postpartum cardiomyopathy 0.3%, myxedematous heart disease 0.1%, and miscellaneous heart ailments 1.5%.
