Cardiovascular disease kills roughly 690,000 Americans yearly, with nearly equal numbers of men and women. A speaker argues healthspan requires lifespan first: you can live long without being healthy, but not healthy without being alive. Dr. Betty Murray uses 2023 mortality data to show why extending both matters.
If you do not have lifespan, your healthspan really doesn't matter. So you can definitely have lifespan without healthspan, but you can't have healthspan without lifespan. And, you know, given the fact that cardiovascular disease has been the leading cause of death in the US for both men and women for 120 years, I think it's relevant that we talk about that today.
Yeah, you know, I was reading a stat in 2023, like 380,000 men died of a cardiovascular event and 310,000 women. Like, there's not a lot of distance between that.
