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Article: Heart disease remains deadliest
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- St. Joseph News-Press
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- February 2, 2005
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WASHINGTON - Recent medical findings reported that cancer killed
more people under the age of 85 on a national basis, but in Missouri
heart disease remains the state's deadliest disease.
According to the American Cancer Society's latest annual
statistical report, in 2002 476,009 Americans under 85 died of
cancer; 450,637 died of heart disease.
"That's misleading because Missouri is still No. 1 with heart
disease," said Linda Powell of the Missouri Heart Disease and Stroke
Program.
In Missouri, more than 16,000 people died of heart disease in
2002, while in the same year cancer claimed the lives of 12,321,