Cancer approaches heart disease as leading cause of death in U.S. : dailytarheel

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Cancer approaches heart disease as leading cause of death in U.S.

Cancer approaches heart disease as leading cause of death in U.S.

Cancer approaches heart disease as leading cause of death in U.S.Luke Bollinger | Published 11 hours agoIn 2014, heart disease accounted for 614,348 deaths across the nation whereas cancer accounted for 591,699 deaths, according to a data brief released by the National Center for Health Statistics this August.Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at the National Center for Health Statistics, said although cancer deaths have been increasing, the risk of dying from cancer has been declining."The reason why the number is going up and the risk is going down is because we have an aging population," he said.The gap between heart disease and cancer deaths has narrowed since 1950, when heart disease accounted for about 300,000 more deaths than cancer, and researchers expected cancer to surpass heart disease as the leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2010, Anderson said.


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History of gallstones may signal higher risk of heart disease

History of gallstones may signal higher risk of heart disease

(Reuters Health) - People who have had gallstone disease are more likely than others to develop coronary heart disease, according to a large analysis of past studies.Hardened deposits known as gallstones form in the gallbladder when the bile contains too much cholesterol or other abnormal substances, and while the cause is not fully understood, factors like obesity, high-calorie diets and metabolic syndrome are associated with gallstone risk.The same factors increase the risk for coronary heart disease, which kills 370,000 Americans per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."Several previous studies have suggested a potential link between gallstones and cardiovascular disease," said senior author Dr. Lu Qi, professor of epidemiology at Tulane University in New Orleans.


by the same token on eurekalert

Younger heart attack survivors may face premature heart disease death

Younger heart attack survivors may face premature heart disease death

DALLAS, Aug. 30, 2016 - For patients age 50 and younger, the risk of premature death after a heart attack has dropped significantly, but their risk is still almost twice as high when compared to the general population, largely due to heart disease and other smoking-related diseases, according to new research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal.The study is based on data from 21,693 heart attack survivors age 50 and younger who were compared to 216,930 people from the general population and followed for an average of 11 years.Four of every five heart attack survivors were men and their average age was 45.The majority of heart attack survivors -- 83.6 percent -- were between the ages of 40 and 49, whereas only 1.8 percent of them were under age 30.


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Heart attack: Younger survivors at risk of early heart disease death

Heart attack: Younger survivors at risk of early heart disease death

The risk of premature death has decreased significantly in heart attack survivors under age 50.However, they are still almost twice as likely to die early - primarily due to heart disease - when compared with the generation population, finds a study published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.Women were three times more likely to die after a heart attack compared with the general population, whereas men were 1.7 times more likely.Women were three times more likely to die after a heart attack compared with the general population, whereas men were 1.7 times more likely.