Forbes January 26, 2023
Dr. Jeff Wessler (MD MPhil FACC) is a virtual cardiologist, the Founder of Heartbeat Health, and on clinical faculty at Northwell Health.
Did you know someone in the U.S. dies of heart disease every 34 seconds?
Although we’ve made great progress in countering heart disease over the last several decades, death rates are on the rise, and heart disease is the leading cause of death across men, women and nearly all racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
Moreover, we often identify heart disease late despite knowing that 80% of premature heart disease and strokes are preventable.
Take hypertension, for example, which many view as a silent killer. Though 116 million American adults have hypertension, over 88 million are...