Recent Health Gains for Adults

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The emerging profile of health data for Americans suggests some interesting and encouraging trends. Life expectancy for all age groups has increased substantially in this century. The recent gain for adults warrants special comment.An examination of the United States experience with deaths from cardiovascular disease offers some important and possibly historic lessons. As deaths from infectious disease have declined, chronic diseases (and especially cardiovascular diseases) have become prominent on the mortality tables. Heart disease has been the leading cause of death in this country since 1910, except for the years of the influenza pandemic (1918 to 1920). Stroke has . . .

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