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Article: CDC REPORT PROVIDES FIRST STATE-SPECIFIC DATA ON PERSONS LIVING WITH HEART DISEASE

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February 15, 2007
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The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Centers for Disease Control & Prevention issued the following press release:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released a report that finds a wide range of variation in the prevalence of coronary heart disease (a narrowing of the arteries that feed the heart), heart attack and angina (chest pain that occurs when the heart does not get enough blood). The report provides the first ever information on the percentage of people living with heart disease in all 50 states and U.S. territories. The report found that some states and territories had double the prevalence of heart disease as others. For heart attacks, ...

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