Heart disease and stroke deaths hitting middle age adults in large numbers | CDC Online Newsroom

Press Release Embargoed Until: Thursday, September 6, 2018, 1:00 p.m. ETContact: Media Relations(404) 639-3286 Despite being largely preventable, heart attacks, strokes, heart failure and other related conditions caused 2.2 million hospitalizations in 2016, resulting in $32.7 billion in costs and 415,000 deaths, according to the latest CDC’s Vital Signs report. Many of these events were […]