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Article: A vaccine against heart disease?
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- United Press International
- Article date:
- July 29, 2003
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WASHINGTON, Jul 29, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX)
Someday soon, scientists predict, a visit to the pediatrician could include an inoculation to protect a child against heart disease in adulthood, but critics question whether such a prospect is realistic.
Heart disease is the number one killer of American men and women. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, it claimed the lives of more than 700,000 people in 2000, some 6 million are hospitalized because of it each year and its sufferers total about 61-million.
To be able to vaccinate against such an ubiquitous killer, which attacks people in all ethnic ...