Heart Beat: Lopsided decline in heart disease deaths
Heart Beat
While the increase accounts for an extra 100 or so deaths a year — a drop in the bucket compared with the 500,000 Americans felled annually by coronary artery disease — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers who did the study call it the "leading edge of a brewing storm." Without greater attention to prevention, young women and men will ease into old age with an extra burden of cardiovascular risk that will translate into more heart disease and more deaths from it.
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