Hypertensive heart disease includes a number of complications of arterial hypertension that affect the heart. While there are several definitions of hypertensive heart disease,[1] the term is most widely used in the context of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)coding categories. According to ICD10, hypertensive heart disease (I11), and its subcategories: hypertensive heart disease with heart failure (I11.0) and hypertensive heart disease without heart failure (I11.9) are distinguished from chronic rheumatic heart diseases (I05-I09), other forms of heart disease (I30-I52) and ischemic heart diseases (I20-I25). In the latter case some might consider this distinction arbitrary since hypertension is a risk factor for atherosclerosis which is responsible for ischemic heart disease.
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Disability-adjusted life year for hypertensive heart disease per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004.
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Hypertensive heart disease was estimated to be responsible for 1.0 million deaths worldwide in 2004 or approximately 1.7% of all deaths and was ranked 13th in the leading global causes of death, for all ages. [3] A map of disability-adjusted life years per 100,000 inhabitants due to hypertensive heart disease is shown in the figure. Hypertensive heart disease is only one of several diseases attributable to high blood pressure or hypertension.
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- ^ Eduardo Alegría-Ezquerra E, González-Juanatey JR, González-Maquedac I. Hypertensive Heart Disease: A Proposed Clinical Classification. Rev Esp Cardiol. 2006;59:398-9. - Vol.59 Núm 04 DOI: 10.1016/S1885-5857(06)60781-0.
- ^ "WHO Disease and injury country estimates". World Health Organization. 2009. http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/estimates_country/en/index.html. Retrieved Nov. 11, 2009.
- ^ World Health Organization (2008). The Global Burden of Disease: 2004 Update. Geneva: World Health Organization. ISBN 92-4-156371-0.
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