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CARDIOVASCULAR JOURNAL OF AFRICA • Volume 32, No 1, January/February 2021
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AFRICA
C rdiov scular Disease
Scorecards – Africa
SOUTH AFRICA – NOVEMBER 2020
Status of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and
Non-communicable diseases (NCD)
Prevalence
of
rheumatic heart disease
(RHD)
MALE
MALE
FEMALE
1.01%
23.5%
Prevalence
of
tobacco
use
age ≥15
46.8
27.4%
FEMALE
16
26.1%
of population with raised
total
cholesterol
(≥5.0 mmol/L)
of population with raised
blood pressure
(SBP ≥140 or DBP ≥90)
12.7%
Prevalence of diabetes
(ages 20-79)
3.9%
(Africa)
%
of
deaths
caused by CVD
16.13%
Global data:
31.8%
Global data:
0.53%
of total mortality
caused by
RHD
0.22%
Global data:
0.51%
18%
of premature CVD
mortality attributable
to
tobacco
Global data:
10%
of deaths
caused by
hypertensive
heart disease
2.03%
Global data:
1.65%
Global data:
38.9%
Global data:
24.1%
(male)
20.1%
(female)
Global data:
36.1%
(male)
6.8%
(female)
Country Demographics
World Bank
Classification
of population living in rural areas
34%
Upper-middle
income
60%
(Sub-Sahara Africa)
28.3%
Prevalence of obese
adults
(BMI of ≥30 kg/m
2
)
Global data:
13.1%
SOUTHAFRICA