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.
Notes on verification
Figures match CDC, NIH/NHLBI, and AHA statistical reports; numbers are internally consistent and corroborated by multiple independent public health sources. [tier=silver indep_score=0.925 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Heart Disease Facts - CDC (seed:health_and_medicine)
- https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/heart-attack (corroboration)
- https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000950 (corroboration)