U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Heart Disease and Stroke

Goal: Improve cardiovascular health and reduce deaths from heart disease and stroke.

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Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, and stroke is the fifth leading cause.1,2 Healthy People 2030 focuses on preventing and treating heart disease and stroke and improving overall cardiovascular health.

Heart disease and stroke can result in poor quality of life, disability, and death. Though both diseases are common, they can often be prevented by controlling risk factors like high blood pressure and high cholesterol through treatment.

In addition, making sure people who experience a cardiovascular emergency — like stroke, heart attack, or cardiac arrest — get timely recommended treatment can reduce their risk for long-term disability and death. Teaching people to recognize symptoms is key to helping more people get the treatment they need.

Objective Status

  • 0 Target met or exceeded
  • 2 Improving
  • 5 Little or no detectable change
  • 2 Getting worse
  • 3 Baseline only
  • 7 Developmental
  • 0 Research

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Related Objectives

The following is a sample of objectives related to this topic. Some objectives may include population data.

Heart Disease and Stroke — General

Increase the proportion of adult heart attack survivors who are referred to a rehabilitation program — HDS‑D03
Developmental
Increase the proportion of adult stroke survivors who participate in rehabilitation services — HDS‑D05
Developmental
Reduce coronary heart disease deaths — HDS‑02
Getting worse
Reduce stroke deaths — HDS‑03
Getting worse
Improve cardiovascular health in adults — HDS‑01
Little or no detectable change

Chronic Kidney Disease

Reduce the proportion of adults with chronic kidney disease who have elevated blood pressure — CKD‑06
Little or no detectable change

Emergency Preparedness

Increase the rate of bystander AED use for non-traumatic cardiac arrests in public places — PREP‑02
Improving
Increase the rate of bystander CPR for non-traumatic cardiac arrests — PREP‑01
Little or no detectable change

Hospital and Emergency Services

Reduce heart failure hospitalizations in adults — HDS‑09
Improving
Increase the proportion of heart attack patients who get timely fibrinolytic therapy — HDS‑D01
Developmental
Increase the proportion of heart attack patients who get timely percutaneous intervention — HDS‑D02
Developmental
Increase the proportion of stroke patients who get IV reperfusion therapy within 3 hours of symptom onset — HDS‑D04
Developmental
Increase the proportion of people with strokes who get mechanical thrombectomy within 16 hours of symptom onset — HDS‑D06
Developmental

Nutrition and Healthy Eating

Reduce the proportion of adults with high blood pressure — HDS‑04
Baseline only
Reduce cholesterol in adults — HDS‑06
Baseline only

Preventive Care

Increase cholesterol treatment in adults — HDS‑07
Little or no detectable change
Increase aspirin use for secondary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease — HDS‑08
Little or no detectable change
Increase control of high blood pressure in adults — HDS‑05
LHI label
Baseline only
Increase the proportion of adults whose risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease was assessed — HDS‑D07
Developmental

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References

1.

Murphy, S.L., Xu, J.Q., Kochanek, K.D., & Arias, E. (2018). Mortality in the United States, 2017. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db328-h.pdf [PDF - 518 KB]

2.

Benjamin, E.J., et al. (2019). Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics — 2019 Update: A Report from the American Heart Association. Circulation, 139(10), e56-e528. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000659