Heart Problems — Over the Years

Heart disease has been the top killer of diseases every year since 1900, except in 1918 when, when an influenza epidemic killed more than 450,000 Americans. The second in the list is cancer, and the third, stroke, still another heart disease.

A lot of progress in the past 25 years has been made in lowering the rates of heart disease and stroke death with the development of effective medications to control blood pressure and cholesterol.


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