# Million Hearts

Resource · id `cardio:million-hearts` · Cardiovascular Atlas · release `5dcd9b263fe17744` (public)

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Browse, organ or system: Heart  
Browse, condition area: Risk and prevention  

## In plain language

A US national initiative whose target year is 2027 and whose aim is to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes. Its website says the CDC and CMS co-lead it and that it began in 2012. Its current priorities are building healthy communities (less tobacco use, less physical inactivity and less particle pollution), optimizing care (appropriate use of medicines that prevent blood clots, blood pressure control, cholesterol care, help quitting smoking, and more use of cardiac rehabilitation), and a focus on health equity. The site also holds protocols, change packages, tools and data.

## Technical summary

A pointer to the Million Hearts website, which is managed by the CDC. An earlier phase, Million Hearts 2022, was launched in 2017; its baseline report for key cardiovascular risk factors (MMWR) is used for the physical inactivity prevalence claim. The pages were fetched on 2026-10-15; the about page carries a last-reviewed date of February 29, 2024 and says the five-year vision runs from January 2022 to December 2026. The site's reuse terms were not read, so this atlas states facts in its own words and quotes nothing from it.

## Claims, with the population each applies to

## Context: US national heart attack and stroke prevention initiative (Million Hearts)

Recipient: Recipient not specified; Population: The United States population; the initiative also focuses on groups experiencing inequities.; Care setting: National public health initiative.; Geography: United States; Life stage: Not stated in the source; Gestational age: Not reported; Postnatal age: Not reported; Follow-up: The current vision runs from January 2022 to December 2026.

### The Million Hearts about page says the initiative is led jointly by the US public health agency CDC and the federal Medicare and Medicaid agency CMS, and that it began in 2012. Its target year is 2027, and its aim is to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes.

- Category: Description
- Evidence stage: Guidance
- Certainty: Certainty not assessed
- Applies to: Recipient: Recipient not specified; Population: The United States population; the initiative also focuses on groups experiencing inequities.; Care setting: National public health initiative.; Geography: United States; Life stage: Not stated in the source; Gestational age: Not reported; Postnatal age: Not reported; Follow-up: The current vision runs from January 2022 to December 2026.
- Limitations: This is the initiative's description of itself on a CDC-managed web page. It reports no results. The page's reuse terms were not read, so the page is cite-only.
- Last checked: 2026-10-15
- Sources:
  1. Supports: About Million Hearts (Webpage, edition Page fetched 2026-10-15. The page carries the line Last Reviewed: February 29, 2024.) <https://millionhearts.hhs.gov/about-million-hearts/index.html>
     Locator: About, Who We Are. Retrieved 2026-10-15T13:57:53Z. Source state: Current. Snapshot hash: a1953df6f90605e7cc9921a87652b44c89969f4e1c583cd94285d35a856bc0f6.
     How it applies: Co-leadership and start year.
  2. Supports: About Million Hearts (Webpage, edition Page fetched 2026-10-15. The page carries the line Last Reviewed: February 29, 2024.) <https://millionhearts.hhs.gov/about-million-hearts/index.html>
     Locator: About, What is Million Hearts. Retrieved 2026-10-15T13:57:53Z. Source state: Current. Snapshot hash: a1953df6f90605e7cc9921a87652b44c89969f4e1c583cd94285d35a856bc0f6.
     How it applies: The aim by 2027.

## Connected pages

- Co-led by the CDC (with CMS), according to the Million Hearts about page: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (`core:cdc`)
- Publisher of the cardiac rehabilitation change package: Million Hearts Cardiac Rehabilitation Change Package (`cardio:million-hearts-cardiac-rehab-change-package`)
- National prevention initiative: Preventing heart attack, stroke and heart failure (`cardio:cardiovascular-prevention`)
- Blood pressure control is one of its care priorities: Many people with hypertension are not diagnosed, treated or controlled (`cardio:bottleneck-uncontrolled-hypertension`)
- Co-led with the CDC, according to the Million Hearts about page: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (`cardio:cms`)

## Provenance

Content hash: d411b6649b5961996362d7d26cde2cbbff4a31e9671339cfa410537d00faf8e6
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-15
Evidence last checked: 2026-10-15