Cardiovascular Mortality Rates Vary by Geography
It’s a testament to modern medicine that death rates from heart disease around the nation have been cut in half, yet new research sheds light on the wide disparities in cardiovascular death rates depending on geography. Using death certificate data, a research group led by University of Washington Medical Center cardiologist Dr. Gregory Roth conducted […]
Live Longer By Saying “I Do”
In a new study published last week in the Journal of the American Heart Association, researchers at Emory University in Atlanta found that people with cardiovascular disease who were not married –- including those who were divorced, separated, widowed or never married –- had 24 percent higher rates of death from any cause during the […]
