Every 37 seconds an American dies of cardiovascular disease.
Atherosclerosis starts silently in our teen years, and often tracks with poor lifestyle, and poorly controlled risk factors including poor nutrition, abnorma.
This is the disease that kills most men and women in the United States and knowing about it earlier makes common sense.
For nearly half of its victims atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease shows up suddenly with a heart attack or sudden death - as if appearing out of a fog.
Every 37 seconds an American dies of cardiovascular disease