“Coronary artery disease (CAD)
- Coronary heart disease is the most common type of heart disease. It killed 371,506 people in 2022.1
- About 1 in 20 adults age 20 and older have CAD (about 5%).3
- In 2022, about 1 out of every 5 deaths from cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) was among adults younger than 65 years old.1
Heart attack
- In the United States, someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds.3
- Every year, about 805,000 people in the United States have a heart attack.3 Of these, 605,000 are a first heart attack, and 200,000 happen to be people who have already had a heart attack.3
- About 1 in 5 heart attacks are silent—the damage is done, but the person is not aware of it.”
Centers for Disease Prevention – CDC (Heart Disease Facts | Heart Disease | CDC)