Heart disease deaths are on the rise, research suggests

(CNN) Death rates States due to cardiometabolic -- heart disease, diabetes high blood pressure -- either plateaued or climbed recent years, either unchanged or increased thereafter," Dr. Sadiya Khan, was senior author research. "Even more are persistent disparities higher death rates among Americans compared white men had Heart disease deaths highest rates.

The recent JAMA study investigated national trends in cardiometabolic disease deaths in the U. S. during 1999–2017. The results reveal that while the overall rate of cardiometabolic disease deaths has been falling since 1999, the decline was slower after 2010. "Racial disparities in cardiometabolic causes of death persisted," note the authors, who found that black people are still more likely to die of these diseases than white people. Within the overall trend, the team uncovered differences among the conditions as follows: "Our findings make it clear that we are losing diabetes and cardiovascular disease ground in the battle against cardiovascular disease," says senior study author Dr. Sadiya S. Khan, assistant professor of cardiology and epidemiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U. S. , where it kills around 610,000 people per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Khan states that the significant decline in deaths to cardiometabolic diseases up to 2011 has been largely due to improvements in their diagnosis and treatment.

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