Heart diseases: number of cardiovascular diseases are on the increase again

Cardiologists are worried about an increase in cardiovascular disease. After a sharp decline of deaths by almost half since 1990, the number of platforms since 2015, said the chief doctor of the cardiology at the Klinikum München-Bogenhausen, Ellen Hoffmann, in the run-up to the Munich-based cardiologists Congress.

The progress of medicine in Opening up clogged arteries, pacemakers, implantable defibrillators and artificial heart valves to be creators of a border. In addition, the population will getting older, said Hoffmann.