Cardiovascular health spending has tripled, but death rates are rising in major Hampton Roads cities

By: WHRO

Outlets: Virginia Mercury

Published: August 4, 2026

Words: 534

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 1 day ago

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By Yiqing Wang/WHRO

Cardiovascular care has become more advanced over the past two decades, giving doctors new ways to prevent deaths from heart attacks, strokes and other conditions.

But a new national study found those advances have come with rapidly rising costs while improvements in cardiovascular death rates have largely stalled.

The analysis, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, found U.S. spending on cardiovascular disease more than tripled between …

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