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PROLOGUE
Trends In The Burden, Treatment, And Prevention Of Cardiovascular Disease
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has two outstanding traits that have long fueled hopes of vastly reducing its burden: It isnt infectious, and because most of it is man-made, its largely preventable. Nevertheless, CVD has held the rank of number-one killer in the United States every year since 1900 (except for 1918, thanks to pandemic flu) and now holds the title "worlds greatest killer."
Attendees at the recent 2006 World Congress of Cardiology learned that 80 percent of the record 17.5 million deaths caused by heart attack and stroke in 2005 occurred in low- and middle-income countries. The rapidly mounting burden of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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