Heart Health
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
One person dies every 34 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease.
About 697,000 people in the United States died from heart disease in 2020—that’s 1 in every 5 deaths.
Heart disease cost the United States about $229 billion each year from 2017 to 2018.3 This includes the cost of health care services, medicines, and lost productivity due to death.
(https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm)
At the root of heart disease is inflammation. Contact us today to discuss your risk factors and how the Functional Medicine approach to heart disease is different from the traditional medical approach.
