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Among the brightest chapters in medical history is that which has been chronicled over the past 15 years with regard to the fight to save middle-aged American men from the ravages of heart and blood vessel disease. There has been, since 1950, a 7 1/2 per cent decline in the cardiovascular death rate applying to American males aged 45 through 64. For the first time, the death rate from high blood pressure and the heart disease it causes is dow$ 50 percent, while that ffpm stroke has dropped .26 per cent. These a r a m'a t i c gains more than offset an increase of about 4 per cent in the death rate due to heart attack. It is significant that the decline dates from 1950, a year which marked the beginning of massive heart research programs supported by both voluntary and tax dollars. Your Heart Fund has been the spearheading force behind the effort. Since the first Heart
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