#1 Killer in the United States
While heart disease is still the number-one killer in the United States , it’s also no longer a guaranteed death sentence, thanks to newer medications, improved surgical techniques, and better understanding of the disease . Society as a whole has also gotten better at preventing heart disease . A 2018 study in the journal Circulation found that the overall rate of heart disease in the U.S. had declined 38% since 1990. Other developed countries have seen even greater reductions. But these improvements haven’t benefited everyone equally —and one new study shows a troubling trend among young people, and young women, in particular . When researchers looked at hospitalization rates for heart attacks between 1995 and 2014, they found that those numbers ...