Keeping a Pulse on Heart Health

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. High cholesterol levels and blood pressure are two of the main risk factors that people are increasingly watchful over. According to the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately one in every six adults (16.3% of the U.S. adult population) has high cholesterol and about one out of three U.S. adults (31.3%) has high blood pressure.

Recent developments in the heart h…