J Korean Med Sci.  1987 Sep;2(3):141-150. 10.3346/jkms.1987.2.3.141.

The frequency distribution of cardiovascular diseases in 13 hospital admitted patients in Korea: Korean Society of Circulation

• Bae JH
• Hong SJ
• Park WH
• Ro YM
• Lee HC
• Kim JS
• Seo JD
• Lee WK
• Kang JC
• Ryoo UH
• Park CH
• Lee Y
• Lee CK
• Park OK

• KMID: 1421260
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.1987.2.3.141

Abstract

The frequency distribution of cardiovascular disease are changing recently due to the development of living environment. Unfortunately there are few epidemiological studies of cardiovascular diseases in general population, we tried to estimate the recent trend of cardiovascular diseases studying hospitalized patients in nationwide 13 large hospitals during a year of 1985. The hypertensive disease (24.1%) was the most common cardiovascular disease and the next were cerebrovascular disease (15.8%), arrhythmias (12.2%), ischemic heart disease (9.7%), congenital heart disease (9.1%), and rheumatic heart disease (5.4%) in order. This results showed that hypertensive disease and cerebrovascular disease are still the major cardiovascular disease and ischemic heart disease and arrhythmias are increased. But chronic rheumatic heart disease is declined compared with previous studies in hospitalized patients.

Keyword

Frequency distribution of cardiovascular disease

MeSH Terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Cardiovascular Diseases/*epidemiology
Coronary Disease/*epidemiology
Female
Humans
Korea
Male
Middle Aged
Rheumatic Heart Disease/*epidemiology