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HENRY M. PARRISH, MD, DRPH; CAROLE A. CARR, MSPH; STANLEY L. SILBERG, MPH, PhD; JOHN C. GOLDNER, MD, MSPH

Arch Intern Med. 1966;118(5):436-445.

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OWING TO a decline in infectious-disease deaths and an apparent increase in some types of chronic diseases, cardiovascular diseases are now the leading cause of death in the United States. Some investigators believe that we are now witnessing an "epidemic" of coronary heart disease (CHD) among the white, male population of the United States and England. Others feel that this apparent increase in CHD results from a greater proportion of persons in the older age groups in the population, from changes in the classification of heart disease, from better diagnosis by physicians, and from more widely accepted usage of the term, "coronary heart disease," in certifying causes of death.¹

Coronary heart disease is relatively rare among white women before the age of menopause. Mortality statistics in the United States for the past 40 years show an increase in cardiovascular-renal disease death rates for white males and a decrease . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
COLUMBIA, MO

From the Department of Community Health and Medical Practice, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Mo.

Footnotes
Received for publication June 7, 1966; accepted Aug 18.

Reprint requests to Department of Community Health and Medical Practice, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Mo (Dr. Parrish).

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