Dr. Carla-Dyann Brown, Author at MedFitNetwork

Fitness & Cardiovascular Disease

Dr. Carla-Dyann Brown/30 December 2014/ All MFN blog, Conditions/

“Approximately every 34 seconds, 1 American has a coronary event, and approximately every 1 minute 23 seconds, an American will die of one.”

In 2008, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported that 515,000 Americans experienced their first heart attack and over 200,000 Americans were treated for a second or third heart attack. In that year alone, 720,000 Americans suffered a heart attack and approximately 600,000 died of cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Fitness Professionals: November is Diabetes Awareness Month

Dr. Carla-Dyann Brown/2 November 2014/ All MFN blog, Conditions/

Did you know in 1980, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), 5.6 million Americans had been diagnosed with diabetes? This had more than doubled by 2000, with 12 million reported cases of diabetes. If this trend were to continue, by 2020 there would be an estimated 24 million diabetics in the United States alone. However, in 2012 the American Diabetes Association (ADA) estimated that 9.3% of the population, or 29.1 million Americans, have diabetes.