Preventable Heart Problems Killed 415,000 People in 2016. Here’s How to Keep Your Heart Healthy
By Jamie Ducharme September 6, 2018
Heart problems that were “largely preventable†killed around 415,000 Americans in 2016, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says, highlighting the importance of proactive interventions.
Under its new Million Hearts campaign, which aims to prevent a million heart attacks and strokes by 2022, the CDC looked at 2016 data and identified approximately 2.2 million hospitalizations and 415,000 deaths caused by heart attacks, strokes, heart failure and related conditions that likely could have been avoided. The total number of deaths related to heart issues is even higher — in 2015, almost 634,000 people died of heart disease alone, making it the leading cause of death among American adults that year.
http://time.com/5388659/how-to-keep-your-heart-healthy/
