US Death Rates From Heart Disease Climbing
Though deaths from heart disease fell between 1999 and 2011, they increased in 2018, a new study shows. The study, published in The BMJ, examined data for 12.9 million people who died between 1999 and 2018 in the U.S. from heart disease. Overall, the number of deaths from total heart disease fell from 752,192 in 1999 to 596,577 in 2011, but the number then increased to 655,381 in 2018.