Heart Disease's Long Goodbye As the United States commemorates its latest milestone in the fight against heart disease, a small pill called enlicitide has been approved by the FDA to lower "bad" cholesterol by nearly 60 percent.
This achievement is easy to get caught up in, but beneath the headlines lies a more nuanced story: decades of progress that have turned what was once an almost certain death sentence into a manageable condition for millions.
Since 1950, the age adjusted death rate from cardiovascular disease has fallen by three quarters.