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Unfortunately, the incidence of cardiovascular disease is still growing. As recently commented upon by Braunwald [1], world wide in 1990 29% of all deaths were caused by cardiovascular disease and this is expected to rise to 36% in 2020. Incidence and ability to lower the number of cardiovascular deaths varies considerably from country to country. As shown by Sans et al. [2] standardized mortality from ischemic heart disease may vary in Europe from 70 (France) to 700/100.000 (Russia) for men and from 36 (France) to 370/100.000 (Russia) for women in the age group 0–64 years.
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Wellens, H.J.J. (1999). Cardiology Approaching the Year 2000. A Clinician’s Look at Molecular Cardiology. In: Doevendans, P.A., Reneman, R.S., van Bilsen, M. (eds) Cardiovascular Specific Gene Expression. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 214. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9321-2_1
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