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Heart Failure Mortality Rates Surge to Highest Levels in 20 Years

By Megan Redshaw, J.D. An unprecedented number of people are dying from heart failure, completely reversing long-standing declines in cardiovascular mortality rates observed just two decades ago. A cohort study published on April 24 in JAMA Cardiology using U.S. death certificate data showed deaths related to heart failure decreased from 1999 to 2012, plateaued, and […]