Recent Trends in Cardiovascular Mortality in the United States and Public Health Goals

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Heart disease (HD) and cancer are the 2 leading causes of death in the United States. During the first decade of the 21st century, HD mortality declined at a much greater rate than cancer mortality and it appeared that cancer would overtake HD as the leading cause of death.

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Title: JAMA Cardiology

Abbreviated Title: JAMA Cardiol

Publisher: American Medical Association (AMA)

ISSN (Print): 2380-6583

Publication date Created: August 01 2016

Publication date (Print): August 01 2016

Volume: 1

Issue: 5

Page: 594

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[1 ]Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland

[2 ]Department of Endocrinology, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, South San Francisco

[3 ]Department of Neurology, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Walnut Creek

[4 ]Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland4Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Medicine, University of California, San Francisco5Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanfor

[5 ]Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland6Department of Cardiology, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland7Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Article

DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2016.1326

PubMed ID: 27438477

SO-VID: 91b08255-4aa8-4657-95c2-73ff6aea8223

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