About every 25 seconds, someone in the U.S. will have a heart attack or stroke. Half will die as a result, or approximately 620,000 people every year. This means that heart disease accounts for about 25% of American deaths.
Because heart disease poses such a significant health threat, finding ways to predict who is likely to have a heart attack or stroke remains the subject of intense research.
Even though February is the month formally acknowledged as American Heart Month, it is a disease that is on the minds of many researchers at the Broad every day.