{"id":5425,"date":"2021-02-03T10:27:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5425"},"modified":"2021-02-03T10:27:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:27:40","slug":"american-heart-month-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/02\/03\/5425\/","title":{"rendered":"American Heart Month 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February is American Heart Month. Heart Disease continues to be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db395-tables-508.pdf#page=4\">leading cause of death<\/a> in the United States with over 659,000 deaths in 2019.\u00a0 Heart disease death rates have declined by almost 40 % from 1999 to 2019.\u00a0 However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/mortality-dashboard.htm\">provisional death rate<\/a> for heart disease during the second quarter of 2020 was 166 deaths per 100,000, up from 159 during the same time in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>There are over <a href=\"https:\/\/ftp.cdc.gov\/pub\/Health_Statistics\/NCHS\/NHIS\/SHS\/2018_SHS_Table_A-1.pdf\">30 million U.S. adults<\/a> that have been diagnosed with any type of heart disease.\u00a0 More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhamcs\/web_tables\/2017_ed_web_tables-508.pdf\">8 million emergency department visits<\/a> involve coronary artery disease, ischemic heart disease or history of myocardial infarction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February is American Heart Month. Heart Disease continues to be the leading cause of death in the United States with over 659,000 deaths in 2019.\u00a0 Heart disease death rates have declined by almost 40 % from 1999 to 2019.\u00a0 However, the provisional death rate for heart disease during the second quarter of 2020 was 166<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62233,28877],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}