Preventable Heart Problems Kill Hundreds of Thousands Year. Here's How to Keep Your Heart Healthy

Heart problems that were "largely preventable" killed around 415,000 Americans in 2016, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says, highlighting the importance of proactive interventions.

Under its new Million Hearts campaign, which aims to prevent a million heart attacks and strokes by 2022, the CDC looked at 2016 data and identified approximately 2.