Cardiovascular care has become more advanced over the past two decades, giving doctors new ways to prevent deaths from heart attacks, strokes and other conditions.
But a new national study found those advances have come with rapidly rising costs while improvements in cardiovascular death rates have largely stalled.
The analysis, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, found U.S. spending on cardiovascular disease more than tripled between 2000 and 2022, reaching more than $220 billion annually…