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1NURS329Prevalence of coronary heart disease for Australian population:Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major disease burden worldwide as it is the numberone cause of mortality. CVD is also a major health problem in Australia as 4.2 million people areliving with CVD in Australia. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is also one type of CVD and themost recent statistics for Australia in 2015 shows that around 1.2 millions Australians areaffected by CHD. It is leading cause of death in Australia and the in the year 2015, it wasresponsible for almost 12% of all deaths. The prevalence and burden of CHD in Australia is alsounderstood from the fact that CHD kills one Australian every 27 minutes(aihw.gov.au,2018).Due to the increase in prevalence of CHD, national consensus meeting was held toimprove approach to secondary prevention of the disease (Redfern & Chow, 2013).The above statistics is for total Australian population, however difference is found in thepatterns and prevalence of CHD in indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. For instance,CHD progresses faster in indigenous Australians compared to non-indigenous Australians. Themortality rate for CHD is higher in indigenous people compared to non-indigenous Australians.In the year 2012-2013, 2.4 times highest hospitalization rate for CHD was found for indigenousAustralians compared to non-indigenous population (aihw.gov.au, 2013). Hence, the indigenouspopulation of Australia is twice likely to die from CHD compared to rest of the population. Burden of coronary heart disease for Australian population:The burden of any chronic disease is understood by the impact of the disease ondisability-adjusted life years (DALY) or Years of Life Lost (YLL). DALY or YLL are twoimportant metrics to quantify burden of any disease. One DALY means loss of one healthy lifeyears and it is the sum of YLL due to premature mortality and years lost due to disability for
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