One in Three Deaths from Cardiovascular Disease is Preventable
April 07, 2014 | 31,252 views
EmailBy Dr. Mercola
About one in every three deaths in the US is attributed to cardiovascular disease, which includes heart attacks and stroke. In the US, the most common type of heart disease is coronary artery disease (CAD), which can lead to heart attack.Even though the death rate from cardiovascular diseases has declined by 29 percent between 2001 and 2010, it's still the number one cause of death in the US. According to a new report1 from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 800,000 Americans die from cardiovascular disease annually.A quarter of these deaths—or about 200,000—could be prevented through simple lifestyle changes, and more than half (6 out of 10) of the preventable heart disease and stroke deaths happen to people under age 65. As reported in the featured USA Today article:2"Preventable/avoidable deaths were defined as all deaths from heart disease and stroke in people under age 75 because if their risk factors... had been under control they should have lived longer, says the lead author Linda Schieb, a CDC epidemiologist.The current life expectancy in the USA is age 78 so if people died sooner than that it is considered early or premature, she says."CDC Director Thomas Frieden noted that the findings were "really striking" since we're talking about hundreds of thousands of people dying well before their time each and every year.The analysis shows that African Americans are nearly twice as likely as Caucasians to die from preventable cardiovascular disease. Those living in Southern states also had the highest rates of preventable deaths from heart disease and stroke. According to Mr. Frieden:
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