Heart Disease Deaths drop 54%

Another interesting health report via Reuters.

Overall, the researchers found, heart disease deaths fell by 54 percent between 1981 and 2000. The single largest factor, they say, was the concurrent 35 percent decline in smoking prevalence. They estimate that this trend prevented nearly 30,000 deaths from heart disease -- mostly among people who had no known heart problems at the time they quit.

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