Heart attacks and strokes kill over 200 people every year in Ogliastra . They represent the first cause of death in the land of longevity where treating heart disease has become an odyssey after the weakening of the Cardiology department of the Nostra Signora della Mercede hospital.
32 percent of people die of diseases of the circulatory system . The data, referable to 2017, has just been released by the ASL Ogliastra on the basis of the statistical processing conducted by Rencam over the two-year period 2015-2017.
Of the 643 deaths that occurred in 2017, 208 occurred precisely due to cardiovascular disease. Diseases of the circulatory system increased by 11 percent over the previous year.
Malignant tumors are the second cause of death in the area with 176 deaths (27 per cent per year), an increase of 5.39 per cent compared to 2016.
In third place on the causes of death in Ogliastra there are diseases of the respiratory system : 43 deaths, 7 percent of the total annual figure.
