RT Journal
A1 Marwick C
T1 PReventive cardiologists unready to declare victory in war against coronary heart disease
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1989
FD September 15
VO 262
IS 11
SP 1432
OP 1432
DO 10.1001/jama.1989.03430110016004
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1989.03430110016004
AB HEART DISEASE mortality in the United States has been falling by about 3% per year since the mid-1960s. But the message from the Second International Conference on Preventive Cardiology is: "This is no time to relax."Two decades ago, the United States had the second highest mortality from coronary heart disease in the world, exceeded only by Finland. Today, the United States ranks 15th in this regard.During the preventive cardiology conference in Washington, DC, Jeremiah Stamler, MD, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill, pointed out that, among men in the United States, there has been a 50% reduction in mortality from coronary heart disease during this period and an even greater reduction in mortality from stroke. Nor is it limited to men, he says: "It is seen in women also, in blacks and whites, across the entire age span from 35 to 84 years."Decline Uneven 
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