Heart disease is America’s biggest killer. For more than 100 years, the cluster of conditions that commonly lead to heart attack and stroke has killed more Americans each year than any other cause of death.
And the disease – which killed nearly 700,000 people in the U.S. in 2020 and about half of all Americans have at least one risk factor for – is on the verge of a massive surge. But that surge won't impact all communities the same.
Stephanie Sy reports from Mississippi, the state with the highest rate of heart disease, on the disparities driving the surge and how access to care is affecting residents in the rural Delta region.
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