Heart Disease And Cardiovascular Disease

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Over the years, individuals have been affected by heart disease or are just getting affected. In 2008, the overall death rate from cardiovascular disease was 244.8 per 100,000 individuals [1]. On mortality rate data, more than 2200 Americans die of cardiovascular disease each day, on average of one death every 39 seconds [1]. In figure 1, a slow and steady increase of heart diseases prevailed from 1900 to approximately 1960. From 1970 to 1990, the heart disease started to plateau. Lastly, from 1990 to 2013 the rate of heart disease has slowly started to decline due to innovating ways being brought into field and tissue engineering to help those patients [1]. In addition, there is an urgent demand for more efficacious pharmaceuticals to treat

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