“CDC states
- Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States.1
- One person dies every 33 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease.1
- About 695,000 people in the United States died from heart disease in 2021—that’s 1 in every 5 deaths.1,2
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm)