Environmental News Network - Living Longer Is Important, but Those Years Need to Be Healthy Ones

Details: By American Heart Association; 30.Jan

Data reported in the just published American Heart Association’s Heart & Stroke Statistics - 2020 Update, show heart disease and stroke deaths continue to decline, but that trend has slowed significantly in recent years.

Julie Swatson

Data reported in the just published American Heart Association’s Heart & Stroke Statistics - 2020 Update, show heart disease and stroke deaths continue to decline, but that trend has slowed significantly in recent years. Further discouraging is that more people are living in poor health, beginning at a younger age, as a direct result of risk factors that contribute to these leading causes of death worldwide.

To build on its mission to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives, the American Heart Association, the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke, has published a presidential advisory in the journal, Circulation, outlining new national and global 2030 Impact Goals to help all people live healthier for more years of their life.

Across the US: Together, we will equitably increase healthy life expectancy from 66 to at least 68 years by 2030.

Around the world: Together with global and local collaborators, we will equitably increase worldwide healthy life expectancy from 64 to at least 67 years by 2030.

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Living Longer Is Important, but Those Years Need to Be Healthy Ones