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Article: Embryonic stem cell therapy shows steady benefits in rebuilding infarcted heart.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- September 12, 2004
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2004 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Despite improvements in earlier diagnosis and treatment, cardiovascular disease is far and away the leading cause of death in the U.S. and the world. According to the latest posted statistics, heart disease causes 700,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, with the number of adults diagnosed with heart disease exceeding 23 million, or 11.5% of the adult population.
Previously thought of as concentrated in rich countries, ischemic heart and related cerebrovascular diseases alone caused an estimated 17 million or 23.2% of deaths globally in 2000, the World Health Organization reported.
A contributing cause of what some ...