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U.S. Heart Disease Rates Fell 20 Percent Since 1980s: Study

U.S. Heart Disease Rates Fell 20 Percent Since 1980s: Study

By Dennis ThompsonHealthDay Reporter(HealthDay)SUNDAY, Nov. 13, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- New research shows that cases of heart disease have dropped 20 percent in the United States in the last four decades.Experts credit the trend to better detection and prevention of risk factors that endanger heart health."That means all the efforts are paying off," said senior researcher Michael Pencina.He is director of biostatistics for the Duke Clinical Research Institute at Duke University, in Durham, N.C.


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Heart Disease Is Way Down In the U.S.

Heart Disease Is Way Down In the U.S.

In the last two decades, public health experts have urged Americans to make their hearts healthier.Blood pressure guidelines have been updated, the risks of smoking and diabetes have been emphasized, and dramatically more people have taken the cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins.But for all of these steps towards prevention, how big has the payoff been?Researchers posed this question in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.


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Healthy Living Can Overcome Genes Linked to Heart Disease

Healthy Living Can Overcome Genes Linked to Heart Disease

By Dennis ThompsonHealthDay ReporterSUNDAY, Nov. 13, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- If your parent or sibling died young from cardiovascular disease, take heart: There are ways you can counter any genetic predisposition to the illness.New research shows that people can minimize an inherited risk for heart attack by living right -- exercising, eating healthy, staying slim and quitting smoking.Even with a little effort in these areas, people can cut their high genetic risk of heart disease by more than half, said senior researcher Dr. Sekar Kathiresan, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston.But the opposite also is true, Kathiresan warned.