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Article: WYETH-AYERST LABORATORIES SUPPORTS THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION'S STATEMENT ON CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN WOMEN
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- October 11, 1993
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PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, the world leader in women's health care, today expressed strong support for the American Heart Association's (AHA) call for action to prevent cardiovascular disease in women.
The call for action was made in a special report, "Cardiovascular Disease in Women," published in the October issue of Circulation, the official journal of the AHA.
As the report states, cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of death in women in the United States, claiming more lives than cancer, accidents and diabetes combined. Each year, more than 236,000 women die of a heart attack and more than 87,000 die of a stroke. ...