These Latest Heart-Health Findings Could Just Save Your Life

The clock is ticking

Since the 1950s, heart disease deaths have declined by a whopping 70 percent. That’s good news, but heart disease is still the number one killer in the United States, and the steady decline in deaths tapered off starting in 2011, says Nakela Cook, MD, MPH, chief of staff at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in Bethesda, MD, at an NHLBI-sponsored media conference in New York City.

Rates of obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and other risks are on the rise and becoming more prevalent in children, and that threatens to reverse all of our hard-won gains. Are you at risk? Check out these little-known heart disease risk factors that may have a big effect on your health.

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