India, June 26 -- A new study found that deaths from heart attacks in the U.S. have dropped by nearly 90 percent over the past 50 years, but that doesn't mean your heart is completely safe.
Researchers looked at government data on heart disease deaths from 1970 to 2022. They found that in 1970, heart attacks caused more than half (54 percent) of all heart-related deaths. By 2022, that number dropped to 29 percent.
However, other heart problems are on the rise. Deaths from irregular heartbeats like atrial fibrillation, which were rare in the 1970s, went up by 450 percent and now make up about 4 percent of heart disease deaths. Deaths from heart failure rose by 146 percent, and deaths due to high blood pressure increased by 106 percent.
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