Cardiovascular Disorder in Australia

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CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDER IN AUSTRALIA
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Cardiovascular disorder is one of the major causes of death in the nation of Australia.
About 43477 deaths in the nation are attributed to CVD in the year 2017 and it has been found to
kill one people in every 12 minutes in Australia. Cardiovascular disorder refers to all the
disorders and the conditions that involve heart as well as the blood vessels with the main one
being coronary artery disorder, stroke and heart failure and also cardiomyopathy (Baune and
Tully 2016). This assignment would shed more light on the different aspects of cardiovascular
disorder and would also show how this disorder had become a national health burden in the
present era.
About 4.2 million people in the nation is living with one or more cardiovascular disorder
and about one million people are found to be at a moderate to high risk of CVD. The Australian
Bureau of Statistics had been of the opinion that the disorders of the cardiovascular system is
one of the most common category of the major forms of the chronic health disorders that had
been reported. In the year 2015, CVD had been the cause of 29% deaths in the nation with the
next common cause of death in the nation being dementia. In fact disorders of CVD are also
found to be closely associated with the occurrence of many other chronic disorders like chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, cancer, and arthritis (Sweeting et al. 2016). The nation
is seen to spend the most on the treatment of cardiovascular disorders than on any other disorder
group in the nation. The costs that had been found to be associated with CVD amount to about
12% of the total health care expenditures in the nation. In 2011, CVD was noted to be of the
second most burdensome disorder group in Australia causing 15% of the total $4.5 million
disability-adjusted life years lost. The Heart foundation of Australia had found through their
statistical analysis that CVD had been the main cause for more than 575800 hospitalizations in
the year 2016-2017. This had been more pronounced in the lower socio-economic groups in the

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nation like among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and also among those people
who live in the remote areas. Here, the hospitalization rates and death had been found to be the
highest for these two cohorts.
CVD is now accounting for about 15% of the total burden of the disorder in the nation
and it is only second to cancers at 19% of the burden in the nation. In the tear 2012-2013, $ 5.0
billion was spent on providing healthcare to the admitted patients with /CVD. This had
accounted for about 11.1 percent of the total admitted health expenditure which can be
considered to be one of the largest shares of the health expenditure of any of the disorder group
(Correll et al. 2017).
A large number of risk factors remain associated with the disorder that makes the
Australian more vulnerable to develop CVD. The non-modifiable risk factors for the
development of CVD are the age of the person, ethnicity as well as family history. It has been
found the populations of the aged people are increasing because of advancement of medical
research, better healthcare services and technological innovation. Hence, more the people of the
nation are aging; they are seen to be surviving for longer number of years but are becoming
victims of CVD. Ethnicity is yet another cause where the indigenous people of the nation are
having higher rates of CVD (Tully et al. 2016). The modifiable causes of disorder present among
the people in the nation are unhealthy and poor lifestyle choices and improper diets, smoking and
others that increase the chances of CVD in people. It has been found that about close to three
quarters of the people in the nation accounting for about 73% aged 30 to 65 years have reported
been told by their doctors to have at least one risk factor for heart disorders. The data collected of
the year 201-2015 has shown that about 6 million people accounting for about 34% aged 18
years and over have high blood pressure. In the year 2011-2012, one third of the Australians who