📋 Heart Attack Deaths Drop, Other Heart Issues Increase (AARP Article)

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FROM THE ARTICLE.

Fewer people are dying from heart disease compared with previous decades, but it still remains the No. 1 killer.

By Kristen Fischer, AARP.

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Published June 25, 2025.

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S., claiming one life every 33 seconds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but the way it affects people is changing. A new study published June 25 in the Journal of the American Heart Association finds that fewer people are dying from heart attacks and an increasing number of people are succumbing to other heart conditions.

In the past 52 years, deaths from heart attacks have declined by nearly 90 percent, the study found, and overall heart disease death rates dropped by 66 percent. However, researchers have tracked an increase in deaths from heart failure, arrhythmias and hypertensive heart disease, which is a condition that develops as a result of long-term high blood pressure.

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Geez, I guess I better stay on my blood pressure meds after reading the following.

➡️[*** an increase in deaths from heart failure, arrhythmias and hypertensive heart disease, which is a condition that develops as a result of long-term high blood pressure.