💔 Decreased mortality from heart diseases and stroke in the USA

💔 Decreased mortality from heart diseases and stroke in the USA

Mortality from cardiovascular diseases has decreased by 4.7 percent from 2010 to 2020. The number of people in the USA dying from heart attacks each year has decreased from 1 in 2 to now 1 in 8. Stroke has also decreased. It was the third leading cause of death in 1938 but is now in fifth place.

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  • Mortality from cardiovascular diseases has decreased by 4.7 percent from 2010 to 2020.
  • The number of people in the USA dying from heart attacks each year has decreased from 1 in 2 to now 1 in 8.
  • Stroke has also decreased. It was the third leading cause of death in 1938 but is now in fifth place.

Improvements in cardiovascular health

Heart diseases have been the leading cause of death in the USA since 1921. However, since 1950, death rates from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) have decreased by 60 percent. This decline demonstrates significant progress in public health and medical science. The age-adjusted mortality due to CVD decreased from 235.5 per 100,000 people in 2010 to 224.4 per 100,000 people in 2020, representing a decrease of 4.7 percent.

The number of people in the USA dying from heart attacks each year has decreased from 1 in 2 to now 1 in 8.
Stroke, which was first ranked as the third leading cause of death in 1938, has also seen a decrease in mortality and is now ranked as the fifth leading cause of death in the country.

The importance of a healthy lifestyle

The American Heart Association (AHA) emphasizes the importance of a healthy lifestyle, which includes core health behaviors such as smoking, physical activity, diet, and weight, as well as healthy factors like cholesterol, blood pressure, and glucose control.

Over the past decade, average scores for diet within the revised cardiovascular health metrics for American adults have remained low but relatively unchanged, while the mean scores for physical activity, nicotine exposure, sleep quality, and non-HDL blood lipids have shown encouraging improvement trends.

Source: Future Crunch and American Heart Association

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