While we are constantly finding innovative ways to treat existing heart disease, we must continue to focus our efforts on preventing heart disease. Nearly half of all Americans have high blood pressure, high cholesterol or smoke – some of the leading risk factors for heart disease – but these are often either preventable or modifiable risk factors that we can all work to reduce.
1 killer in America and that progress in reducing those deaths has declined in recent years, we will not accept this as our normal. Michael Valentine, MD, FACC, president of the ACC, said "Despite the grim news that heart disease remains the No.
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