{"id":7979,"date":"2025-07-19T10:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/?p=7979"},"modified":"2025-07-19T10:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:19:16","slug":"heart-disease-mortality-in-the-united-states-1970-to-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/heart-disease-mortality-in-the-united-states-1970-to-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Disease Mortality in the United States, 1970 to 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Heart Disease Mortality in the United States, 1970 to 2022<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source: Journal of the American Heart Association<\/div>\n<div>AHAIASA Journals<\/div>\n<div>Originally Published 25 June 2025<\/div>\n<div>Heart attack deaths are way down after decades of breakthroughs\u2014but other risks have skyrocketed<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1. Major Progress Against Heart Attacks:<\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 From 1970 to 2022, heart disease-related deaths in the U.S. dropped from 41% to 24%.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Deaths from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) decreased by 89%.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 These improvements reflect medical advances in managing heart attacks and ischemic heart disease.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2. Rising Mortality in Other Heart Conditions:<\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Heart failure deaths rose by 146%.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Hypertensive heart disease deaths increased by 106%.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Arrhythmia-related deaths increased by a staggering 450%.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 These trends suggest a shift in which types of heart disease are now most dangerous.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3. Key Messages from Experts:<\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Dr. Sara King (Stanford): This shift shows success in treating heart attacks but highlights urgent challenges in managing heart failure and arrhythmias.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Dr. Latha Palaniappan (Stanford): Since more people survive heart attacks, we\u2019re now seeing increased rates of heart failure.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>4. Contributing Risk Factors:<\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Increases in obesity, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension are driving the rise in non-ischemic heart diseases.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>5. Call for Ongoing Action:<\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Experts emphasize the need to enhance prevention efforts\u2014starting as early as childhood.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/10.1161\/JAHA.124.038644\"><span> https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/10.1161\/JAHA.124.038644<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heart Disease Mortality in the United States, 1970 to 2022 Source: Journal of the American Heart Association AHAIASA Journals Originally Published 25 June 2025 Heart attack deaths are way down after decades of breakthroughs\u2014but other risks have skyrocketed 1. Major Progress Against Heart Attacks: \u2022 From 1970 to 2022, heart disease-related deaths in the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7980,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979\/revisions\/7980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}