AHA reports almost half of American adults have heart disease

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Nearly half of US adults have some kind of heart disease according to a new report from the American Heart Association (AHA). In addition, deaths from heart disease continue to inch up, as they have since about 2010, after a steeper decline for several decades. CNN: Nearly half of US adults have cardiovascular disease, study says This report included those with high blood pressure in its calculation of cardiovascular disease. In fact, 39% of Americans are now diagnosed with high blood pressure, thus leaving 9% with other forms of heart disease in their calculations. This is due, in large part, to the stricter standard for normal blood pressure. Thus, more people now have what is considered high blood pressure, and they are labeled as having cardiovascular disease in this study. Dr. David Zhao, chief of cardiology medicine and executive director of the Heart and Vascular Center at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is describing the report as an...
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