02/23/2026
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Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups.
One person dies every 34 seconds from cardiovascular disease.
In 2023, 919,032 people died from cardiovascular disease. That's the equivalent of 1 in every 3 deaths.1
Heart disease is costly. The cost of health care services and medications from heart disease amounted to more than $168 billion between 2021 and 2022