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12/17/07
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Progress In Coronary Disease Death Rates Grinds To Near Halt In Young Adults
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 20, 2007) — Before you plop in front of the television for a day of football, pizza and beer, you might consider this: New research shows that in young adults, decades of hard-won progress in reducing the risk of heart disease appears to be stalling, as recent death rates from coronary disease remain almost unchanged in young men and may even be increasing in women.
---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- See also: Health & Medicine Heart Disease Stroke Prevention Chronic Illness Mind & Brain Stroke Child Psychology Alzheimer's Reference Coronary heart disease Fertility Atkins Diet Bran The worrisome plateau in death rates comes at a time when young Americans are increasingly likely to be obese and suffer from diabetes, high blood pressure and other cardiovascular risk factors. "Young adults should take stock of their lifestyles," said Earl S. Ford, M.D., M.P.H., a medical officer in the U.S Read the Complete Article Similar content: Heart disease death rates no longer dropping, in Heart Disease Obese Children Increased Risk For Death From Diabetes and Coronary Heart Disease And Attacks – CHD and Type 2 Diabetics, in Heart Disease Obesity Linked to Prostate Cancer Death Rates, in Prostate Cancer Study: Young Women Must Do More to Prevent Heart Disease, in Heart Disease Overweight Adolescents Projected To Have More Heart Disease In Young Adulthood, in Heart Disease |
