Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity in Australian Population

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PUBLIC HEALTH
PART 1: RESEARCH OF HEALTH FACTOR IN AUSTRALIAN HEALTH TRACKER
Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading chronic diseases in Australia that has high
morbidity rate. One of the prime risk factors is obesity that exponentially increases the morbidity
rate of the majority of the population. Therefore, this paper focuses on prime risk factor related
to cardiovascular, health statistics of Australian population, burden of it and health policy in
following paragraph.
Cardiovascular diseases are the consequences of build up plaques in blood vessels and
heart. One of the major risk factor of cardiovascular diseases is obesity. 63.4% of the non-
indigenous adult in Australian population are obese and 71.4% of the aboriginal adults in the
population are overweight (Tolhurst et al., 2016). Australian burden of the disease study, 2017
reported that almost 2 in 3 adults in Australia are overweight. Obesity is also reason for
hypertension, diabetes and high blood pressures. Cardiovascular disease kills one Australian
every 12 minute. Therefore, it remains biggest burden in the economy. Nearly 43, 963 Australian
died in 2016. However, there is room for improvement in health as researchers are working on
the data base record generated by Australian health tracker. Accumulated evidences suggested
that in 2025 Australian would halt the exponential rise of the obesity in population (Tolhurst et
al., 2016). In 2011, 201 years of healthy life lost due to cardiovascular disease, and that is 4.5
million DALY ( disability adjusted life year) (Hoque et al., 2016). Total burden of
cardiovascular disease is quite low for older people such as individual over 85 years but the rate
of burden per 1000 population is quite high. However, large proportion of this burden is
preventable by reducing overweight. Otherwise, obese individuals in population generally