{"id":11231,"date":"2026-01-14T19:06:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11231"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:06:59","slug":"heart-failure-deaths-have-accelerated-in-us-since-covid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/01\/14\/heart-failure-deaths-have-accelerated-in-us-since-covid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Failure Deaths Have Accelerated in US Since Covid Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-01-12\/heart-failure-deaths-have-accelerated-in-us-since-covid-pandemic\">Bloomberg<\/a> The Covid pandemic didn\u2019t just kill people directly. It appears to have accelerated a long-brewing reversal in US heart failure deaths, with mortality climbing faster since 2020 after years of decline, new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/email.acc.org\/e3t\/Ctc\/ZW+113\/d2Lp5N04\/VXf4tR2DQS42W2kDNr65Lr-VHW6y9Q695H-t9lKqRg3qgz0W8wLKSR6lZ3myW81XF5K7y_cQ1W8ypXw27-kSs9VZzzrR1v2tC-W57wyGY6rk9sCW1PhcXK3KmGL8VRrvV039v8r0W2K6p603Mj0wxW8hQWCK3RmMMfW8bQwLJ10d4VmW4nXFJT7zjt8bW1SwYlS4Y_bbYN10V4WdQyC-BW5VW8pN92VVDlN36mB9Yc4dsDW4vmRHh3NVdfXVfCdSn5qyXy4N4zVt8hX8jy1W3YvVKY5gD2LBW4NLctl6ZN04dW18kdNl3tr3ZgW4jGSGR1-BK9LW2-pS575YVLJQW6wKGTn56dMvrN5Vl0qgskYPKW6JpSwN2qgwDkW53XNYY8HWh0XW16pJk33zBTL7W5YLncM2T_qbNf546ncT04\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"research, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">research<\/a>&nbsp;shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The increases have been most pronounced among younger adults and Black Americans, pointing to disruptions in care and worsening conditions such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacc.org\/doi\/10.1016\/j.jacc.2025.07.052\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"diabetes, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">diabetes<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacc.org\/doi\/10.1016\/j.jacc.2025.08.012\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"obesity, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">obesity<\/a>&nbsp;and high&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacc.org\/doi\/10.1016\/j.jacc.2025.11.014\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"blood pressure, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blood pressure<\/a>&nbsp;that intensified during the health emergency, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"American College of Cardiology, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American College of Cardiology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacc.org\/doi\/10.1016\/j.jacc.2025.09.1503\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Heart failure, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Heart failure<\/a>&nbsp;has emerged as one of the clearest signals of the pandemic\u2019s lasting impact on chronic disease. Unlike heart attacks or strokes, which are sudden events, heart failure reflects cumulative damage and is especially sensitive to gaps in routine care and long-term management.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg The Covid pandemic didn\u2019t just kill people directly. It appears to have accelerated a long-brewing reversal in US heart failure deaths, with mortality climbing faster since 2020 after years of decline, new&nbsp;research&nbsp;shows. The increases have been most pronounced among younger adults and Black Americans, pointing to disruptions in care and worsening conditions such as&nbsp;diabetes,&nbsp;obesity&nbsp;and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11232,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231\/revisions\/11232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}