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21 Million Suffer
Heart Ailments
More than 21 million Americans are suffering from known heart disease and an additional 13 million are class! fled as having “suspect” heart disease, the American Heart Association discloses in its 1965 Annual Report, recently published. Thousands mori, on whoiryjtp reliable figures
are available, are sufferii^ from the after-effects of strokes. Moreover, the United States has the highest cardiovascular death rate in the world, with heart and blood vessel diseases accounting for 54.5% of the nation’s deaths each year. Despite these facts, the report notes, a 7 percent drop in the cardiovascular mortality rate among middle-aged men has been recorded since 1950. This trend dates from the stepping-up of research in the cardiovascular field by the Heart Association and the federal government, according to the report. The report notes also that
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