Heart disease became the number one killer by the 1940s and 1950s, with cases rapidly increasing in the late 1920s.

“there really was no heart disease before 1950s right”

“and and I think it's it's it's one of these things one has to really try to imagine like all of a sudden people like you and me and or me I guess at my age a little younger all right but but men just men are dropping dead in the prime of life and you know buddy's fathers had everybody's fathers they live to ripe old ages unless they have gone to war and so this was brand-new that young men were just dying in the prime of life”

“at the end of the 1920s a really quite rapid increase in the number of heart disease cases that was in part due to the ability to diagnose it through in a different in a different way of diagnosing it so there's some some tricky bits with those statistics but but really by the 1940s and 50s you have heart disease has risen to be the number one killer”

“and indeed in 1897 as you say in your paper which we're going to review william osler didn't really even mention heart attacks these are rare and i've spoken about this on previous podcasts with other podcast guests listen to the podcast with nina ty schultz if you guys are curious you know heart attacks were not a thing until the 1950s when eisenhower had his heart attack but in medical literature they really weren't a thing 150 years ago”