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The United States is experiencing its highest overall death rates in more than a century, fueled in part by drug overdose mortality. The origins of the current epidemic are due, at least in part, to a 1986 World Health Organization pronouncement that pain treatment is a universal right.
Obesity disproportionately affects people in underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, putting them at a higher risk for heart disease.
There has been a recent three-fold increase in obesity-related deaths from heart disease in the U.S. between 1999 and 2020, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association.
Rates tripled between 1999 and 2020, most dramatically among Blacks and American Indians/Alaskan natives.
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