Overview

• Spain’s latest heart-health survey reports 57.3% of people with two or more risk factors and 22.8% with hypercholesterolemia, as clinicians note little improvement and cite 2025 ESC LDL goals that tighten targets down to below 55 mg/dL for very high-risk patients.
• Mexico recorded 192,563 heart-disease deaths in 2024—about one every two minutes—and 51,382 more in the first quarter of 2025, with experts pointing to obesity, diabetes, hypertension, smoking and poorly treated high cholesterol as key drivers.
• Clinicians urge earlier cardiovascular risk checks, recommending assessments from age 40 in men and 50 in women, or sooner when risk factors or family history are present.
• Specialists emphasize that up to 80% of premature cardiovascular deaths can be prevented through healthier diets, regular activity, tobacco cessation, stress management and better control of blood pressure and LDL cholesterol.
• Community actions paired awareness with on-site screening, including about 1,500 participants in a Mar del Plata walk with blood-pressure and glucose checks, and public outreach such as Málaga’s hospital lighting campaign.