* The average heart beats 100,000 times...

* The average heart beats 100,000 times a day, and more than 2.5 billion times by age 70.

* The average heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood daily.

* The heart is a little larger than a fist.

* In the U.S., 7.1 million people have angina.

* In 1994, 154,350 Americans died of stroke.

* 5% of all heart attacks occur in people younger than 40.

* At least 250,000 of all heart attack victims in the United States die of heart attack within one hour of the onset of symptoms and before they reach the hospital.

* Each year, as many as 1.5 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.

* In 1994, 487,490 people in the United States died of a heart attack.

* About 50 million Americans older than 6 have high blood pressure.

* In 1994, high blood pressure killed 38,130 and contributed to the deaths of more than 180,000 people in the United States.

* The cause of 90% to 95% of high blood pressure is unknown; however, high blood pressure is easily detected and usually controllable.

* Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans and Cuban Americans are more likely to have high blood pressure than whites.

* Atherosclerosis was a leading cause of many of the heart attack and stroke deaths in 1994.

Source: American Heart Assn.