Coronary heart disease remains a major cause of mortality in the US, though death rates have decreased since 1950 due to reductions in modifiable risk factors like smoking and hypertension.
Sustains focus on modifiable risks for heart disease prevention; leaves open updated national mortality trends since 2006.
Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States: in 2006, it resulted in 631,636 deaths in this country.1 Coronary heart disease accounts for 68% of these deaths and affects more than a million Americans each year.2 Common risk factors for coronary heart disease include hypertension, high cholesterol levels, cigarette smoking, obesity, and a family history of heart disease. Most of these risk factors are modifiable by means of a healthy lifestyle or medication,2 and indeed, the rate of death due to heart disease has been decreasing since 1950 thanks to reductions in cigarette smoking and hypertension. . . .
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