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High rates of lung cancer (indicated in this map by brown colors) are highly correlated with the Stroke Belt. The Stroke Belt was first identified in 1962 by Centers for Disease Control (CDC) researchers who noted a concentration of high stroke death rates in the Atlantic coastal plain counties of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. [5]
“Heart disease is very common and occurs in 12.1 percent of the U.S. population,” says Kevin J. Croce, MD, a cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an assistant professor of ...
Examples of aging-associated diseases are atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease, cancer, arthritis, cataracts, osteoporosis, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and Alzheimer's disease. The incidence of all of these diseases increases exponentially with age.
Nearly half of American adults, per a 2019 study in Circulation, have some type of heart disease, and every year, about 805,000 Americans have a heart attack. Heart disease risk factors—up to 80 ...
Heart disease is a type of cardiovascular disease that affects the heart’s structure and function. Several different heart conditions fall under the umbrella term for heart disease.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels. [3] CVDs constitute a class of diseases that includes: coronary artery diseases (e.g. angina, heart attack), heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia, congenital heart disease, valvular heart disease, carditis, aortic aneurysms, peripheral artery disease ...
HEART DISEASE IS the No. 1 cause of death for men (and women) in the U.S.—but not everyone knows that. A 2024 American Heart Association and Harris Poll survey found that 51 percent of Americans ...