What You Can Do Right Now To Evade America's No. 1 Killer

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Sat, 02/22/2020 - 7:01am

Cardiovascular disease was, and still is, our No. 1 killer. It's a major source of our health care costs, and causes disability and related economic loss. At its peak, in the 1960s, among people over age 35, 1 in 100 died of heart disease every year -- a rate more than two-thirds higher than today.

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