Heart Disease 'Will Kill 400,000 Americans in 2010'

Crabtownboy · Feb 16, 2010

Many of these deaths are preventable:

Rising obesity rates are counteracting U.S. progress in cutting cholesterol, blood pressure, and smoking, and about 400,000 Americans will die of heart disease this year, experts say.

Scientists with the University of Liverpool say that eating healthier food, not smoking, and engaging in regular, moderate physical activity could avert about half of these deaths. These scientists also say that 1.5 billion adults worldwide may be overweight by 2015, and although heart disease deaths in the United States have been in decline, they are now leveling off.

"Recent declines in total blood cholesterol have been modest, blood pressure is now rising among women, and obesity and diabetes are rising steeply in both sexes," wrote the University of Liverpool's Simon Capewell in the World Health Organization's weekly journal. The researchers calculated the death toll by looking at lifestyle trends, using the year 2000 as a base.

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