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Thursday, October 31, 2002The risk of dying after a diagnosis of congestive heart failure -- the most common reason for hospitalization among the elderly -- has dropped by around one-third since the 1950s, according to new data from the nation's longest-running heart study. But the disease, which strikes about 550,000 Americans each year, still kills more than half of patients within five years of diagnosis, according to the report published in today's New England Journal of Medicine. In other words, don't take away our research grants just because we're studying a disease whose treatment is getting better. posted by Sydney on 10/31/2002 07:16:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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