About 805,000 people in the United States have a heart attack each year, with 605,000 being first heart attacks and 200,000 occurring in people who already had a heart attack.
Sources
- Heart Disease Facts - CDC (cdc.gov)
- https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/heart-attack (nhlbi.nih.gov)
- https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000950 (ahajournals.org)
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