The historical decline in cardiovascular, heart disease, and stroke mortality rates in the US has decelerated since 2011, which may jeopardize national public health goals.
Deceleration in the decline of all CVD, HD, and stroke mortality rates has occurred since 2011. If this trend continues, strategic goals for lowering the burden of CVD set by the American Heart Association and the Million Hearts Initiative may not be reached.
Sidney et al. (Fri,) studied this question.