Heart Disease in the United States
- Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States.1
- One person dies every 36 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease.1
- About 655,000 Americans die from heart disease each year—that’s 1 in every 4 deaths.2
- Heart disease costs the United States about $219 billion each year from 2014 to 2015.3 This includes the cost of health care services, medicines, and lost productivity due to death.
Coronary Artery Disease
- Coronary heart disease is the most common type of heart disease, killing 365,914 people in 2017.4
- About 18.2 million adults age 20 and older have CAD (about 6.7%).3
- About 2 in 10 deaths from CAD happen in adults less than 65 years old.4
Heart Attack
- In the United States, someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds.3
- Every year, about 805,000 Americans have a heart attack.3 Of these,
- 605,000 are a first heart attack3
- 200,000 happen to people who have already had a heart attack3
- About 1 in 5 heart attacks is silent—the damage is done, but the person is not aware of it.3