This story from ABC News Health informs us that cardiovascular disease and stroke will cost this country an estimated $503.2 billion in 2010.  According to the American Heart Association, many of these cases could have been prevented.  Click below for full story.

The figure includes both health care costs and lost productivity due to death and disease, according to an update published online in the journal Circulation.

The heart association says obesity and other risk factors, like too little exercise and poor diet, are fueling the expected increase in health care costs associated with heart disease and stroke.

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