By Marie Rosenthal
Myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure and other forms of cardiovascular disease (CVD) caused 2.2 million hospitalizations and 415,000 deaths in the United States in 2016, costing nearly $33 billion, according to the latest Vital Signs report from the CDC.
Even more concerning, according to Anne Schuchat, MD, the principal deputy director of CDC, is that many of these events occurred in younger adults—as young as 18 years. An estimated 805,000 hospitalizations and