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Gains on Heart Disease Leave More Survivors, and Questions

By GINA KOLATA (NYT) 1439 words
Late Edition - Final , Section 1 , Page 1 , Column 2

LEAD PARAGRAPH - The numbers have been inching down for decades, but only lately have doctors begun to appreciate how profoundly things have changed for heart attacks and strokes.

They remain the leading cause of death in the United States, but their toll is nothing like what it used to be. They kill proportionately fewer people and -- in another major change -- they strike far later in life. Despite the obesity epidemic, the trends are continuing with no end in sight.



 

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