Obesity-related cardiovascular deaths tripled in the last two decades, new study finds
Heart disease is killing fewer Americans overall, however, cardiovascular deaths where obesity was listed as a key contributing factor have tripled between 1999 and 2020, a new study says.
Heart disease is killing fewer Americans overall, however, cardiovascular deaths where obesity was listed as a key contributing factor have tripled between 1999 and 2020, according to a new study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association. And, Black women had the highest mortality rate out of all the population groups studied.
“I think this data is really important in that it shows us a problem,” said Mamas Mamas, professor of cardiology at Keele University in the U.K., and primary investigator of the study. “And it shows that it disproportionately affects one underserved, underprivileged group. I think you need that information and then to plan, OK, what do we do? How do we address this through policy?”
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