Rising Risk Factors: Heart disease remains leading cause of death
- Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S., according to the American Heart Association’s 2025 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics Update.
- Cardiovascular diseases, including heart disease and stroke, claim more lives than all forms of cancer and accidental deaths combined.
- Nearly 47% of U.S. adults have high blood pressure, while more than 72% are at an unhealthy weight.
- Black women have the highest obesity rate at 57.9%, while Asian women have the lowest rate at 14.5%.
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Cardiovascular diseases continue among the main causes of death in the country and have increased in their most complex forms, according to specialists during the 55th National Congress of the Venezuelan Society of Cardiology (SVC), held in Caracas. Iván Mendoza, cardiologist and member of the SVC, pointed out that 450 % deaths from arrhythmia, from heart failure 145 % and from hypertensive heart disease 100 % increased. The event also presented…
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