Nearly Half of All U.S. Adults Have Cardiovascular Disease

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Nearly half of all adults in the United States have some type of cardiovascular disease — defined as coronary heart disease, heart failure, stroke or high blood pressure — according to the American Heart Association.

And after decades of declines, deaths from cardiovascular disease are on the rise again, with just under 841,000 deaths recorded in 2016, up from about 836,500 in 2015, according to the association’s annual report Heart and Stroke Statistics, published Thursday in the medical journal Circulation, CNN reported.

“Cardiovascular disease produces immense health and economic burdens in the United States and globally,” the authors of the study…

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