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Healthy Heart
<!--Deaths from heart disease and stroke have dropped more than 35% during the past decade, thanks to increasingly sophisticated treatments and improved medications. Low-tech lifestyle strategies account for about half of the lives saved. “It’s wonderful to know we can reduce the burden of heart disease and stroke with simple, low-tech interventions,” says Clyde Yancy, M.D., president of the American Heart Association and medical director of the Baylor Heart and
Vascular Institute in Dallas. “We have the opportunity to do even more,” he adds. The association’s goal for the next decade is to reduce deaths from heart disease and stroke by 20% by increasing overall cardiovascular health by 20%.
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