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In the developed areas of the western hemisphere at least one-half of all deaths are attributable to cardiovascular disease and three-quarters of these are a result of coronary atherosclerosis. During the last century these countries have witnessed a tremendous improvement in life expectancy calculated from the time of birth, chiefly because of the conquest of infectious diseases. However, for individuals who have already reached the age of 40, the improvement in life expectancy has been less dramatic because of their predisposition to coronary artery disease. In the United States, 500,000 deaths are a result of ischemic heart disease and one-half of these occur suddenly.
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Chesler, E. (1993). Ischemic Heart Disease. In: Clinical Cardiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9183-8_17
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