Heart disease is on track to remain the leading cause of death in the United States this year, accounting for the largest number of deaths since 1950.
As of September, behind heart disease, cancer and COVID-19 were the second- and third-highest, respectively, underlying causes of deaths in the country, as the pandemic continued to take a toll, according to an analysis of the total death sum by the Peterson Center on Healthcare and the Kaiser Family Foundation published in November.
