In 2020, 928,741 deaths in the U.S. were blamed on cardiovascular issues, like heart disease and stroke. The age-adjusted rate of deaths also increased that year for the first time in a decade.
Heart disease again made up the largest share of these deaths in 2020, at 41.2%, followed by stroke at 17.3%.
"Prior to 2020, death rates from heart disease had been declining among adults for decades, which has been recognized by the CDC as one of the ten greatest public health achievements of the last century," the CDC's Rebecca Woodruff had said in a statement. From 2011 to 2019, the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics counted age-adjusted heart disease death rates decreasingWide disparities also persist between demographic groups. More than half of men in every racial and ethnic group had cardiovascular disease from 2017 through 2020, ranging from 51.2% of White men to 58.9% of Black men.
Cardiovascular deaths also saw the biggest increases in 2020 among Asian, Black, and Hispanic people, the publication reported, appearing to mirror some of the hardest-hit communities in the early wave of the pandemic.
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