U.S. Death Rate Rises Due to Heart Disease

Heart disease is taking American lives at a fast rate, stalling forty years of gains and driving up the United States mortality rate. Since 1969, death rates from heart disease have declined by almost 70%. Last year, the death rate from heart disease rose 0.9%, which began the upward trajectory. Most worry that this increase reflects an almost three-decade-long obesity epidemic.

See Nation’s Death Rate Rises as Progress Against Heart Disease Stalls, Fox News, December 8, 2016.