disease remained flat for younger adults.
“It’s very surprising that there was absolutely no reduction in younger adults,” said Dr. Liam Brunham, the study’s co-senior author. “This is in stark contrast to the rates of heart disease overall, which are actually coming down quite significantly because of improvements in education, diagnosis and treatment.”
The number of deaths among younger adults with heart disease didn’t improve either. While those mortality rates among the study patients did drop 31% early in the study, they remained steady for the last nine years.
Those numbers echoed a May report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It showed heart disease death rates among people in the United States aged 45-64 declined by 22% from 1999 to 2011, but then increased 4% from 2011 to 2017.
The new study also found women had higher rates of obesity, diabetes and high
