Cost to Treat Heart Disease in America to Triple by 2030

The future cost to cure heart disease in the U.S. will triple by 2030, according to the American Heart Association.

By 2030, approximately 116 million people in the United States (40.5 percent) will have some form of cardiovascular disease. The cost to treat heart disease in the United States will triple by 2030, according to a policy statement published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

"Despite the successes in reducing and treating heart disease over the last half century, even if we just maintain our current rates, we will have an enormous financial burden on top of the disease itself," said Paul Heidenreich, M.D., chair of the American Heart Association expert panel issuing the statement.

The panel estimated future medical costs based on the current rates of disease