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Million Hearts

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.

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Overview

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.

Resource

Type
Collection
Owner
Not reported
Contents
Priorities, protocols, change packages, tools, fact sheets and data for preventing heart attacks and strokes in the United States.
Access
Free public website: https://millionhearts.hhs.gov/
License
Reuse terms not read (the HHS web policies page returned HTTP 403). This atlas names and links the resource, states facts in its own words and does not quote it.

Claims and evidence

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.
Eligibility: inclusion criteria not stated; exclusion criteria not stated
Included
None stated
Excluded
None stated

  • Description Guidance Certainty not assessed

    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.

    Applies to Recipient not specified
    • The United States population; the initiative also focuses on groups experiencing inequities.
    • National public health initiative.
    • United States
    • 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.
    Certainty method
    Not assessed
    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
    Next evidence check due
    Not scheduled
    Sources and citations (2)

    1. Supports About Million Hearts

      Webpage · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Million Hearts) · Edition Page fetched 2026-10-15. The page carries the line Last Reviewed: February 29, 2024.

      Locator
      About, Who We Are
      How it applies
      Co-leadership and start year.
      Retrieved
      Source effective date
      Not reported
      Source state
      Current
      Snapshot hash
      a1953df6f90605e7cc9921a87652b44c89969f4e1c583cd94285d35a856bc0f6
      Reuse basis
      millionhearts.hhs.gov is managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but the HHS web policies page returned HTTP 403 to a script (fetched as cl-hhs-web-policies.html, not worked around), so the page-level reuse terms were not read and are unverified. Only the hash of the page is kept. Public text is cite_only until the integration owner confirms the terms.

    2. Supports About Million Hearts

      Webpage · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Million Hearts) · Edition Page fetched 2026-10-15. The page carries the line Last Reviewed: February 29, 2024.

      Locator
      About, What is Million Hearts
      How it applies
      The aim by 2027.
      Retrieved
      Source effective date
      Not reported
      Source state
      Current
      Snapshot hash
      a1953df6f90605e7cc9921a87652b44c89969f4e1c583cd94285d35a856bc0f6
      Reuse basis
      millionhearts.hhs.gov is managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but the HHS web policies page returned HTTP 403 to a script (fetched as cl-hhs-web-policies.html, not worked around), so the page-level reuse terms were not read and are unverified. Only the hash of the page is kept. Public text is cite_only until the integration owner confirms the terms.

Record details

Record id
cardio:million-hearts
Content hash
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