{"id":7830,"date":"2025-07-03T14:31:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/?p=7830"},"modified":"2025-07-03T14:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:31:32","slug":"heart-disease-mortality-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/heart-disease-mortality-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Disease Mortality in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Heart Disease Mortality in the United States<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Originally Published in the Journal of the American Heart Association 25 June 2025<\/div>\n<div>Source: CDC data analysis, published (From 1970 to 2022)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span> 1. Overall Heart Disease Mortality:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Declined from 41% of U.S. deaths in 1970 to 24% in 2022.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> 2. Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI):<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Age-adjusted death rates decreased by 89% over 52 years.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> 3. Rise in Mortality from Other Cardiac Conditions (1970\u20132022):<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Heart Failure: +146%<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Hypertensive Heart Disease: +106%<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Arrhythmias: +450%<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> 4. Key Quote \u2013 Dr. Sara King (Stanford):<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 The shift in mortality reflects major progress in AMI care, but highlights emerging risks from other cardiac conditions.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> 5.\u00a0 Contributing Risk Factors:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Increasing prevalence of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension in the U.S.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Aging population may worsen these trends.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> 6. Call to Action:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Innovation in heart failure and rhythm disorder care is now essential.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/10.1161\/JAHA.124.038644\">https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/10.1161\/JAHA.124.038644<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heart Disease Mortality in the United States Originally Published in the Journal of the American Heart Association 25 June 2025 Source: CDC data analysis, published (From 1970 to 2022) 1. Overall Heart Disease Mortality: \u2022 Declined from 41% of U.S. deaths in 1970 to 24% in 2022. 2. Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI): \u2022 Age-adjusted death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7831,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions\/7831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}