Word: cardiovascular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a "cash register receipt" for health-care spending that shows the costliest medical problems in the United States are largely preventable. Topping the bill: cardiovascular disorders, including heart disease and high blood pressure, cost Americans $80 billion last year...
Other major hospitals included in the University Cardiovascular Care Consortium include the Mayo Clinic, the Stanford University Medical Center and the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, according to reports in the Boston Globe...
...attackers has long been reflected in mortality statistics. Despite gains made against cancers such as childhood leukemia and Hodgkin's lymphoma, the overall death rate remains dismally high. This year more than half a million Americans will succumb to cancer, making it the nation's second leading killer after cardiovascular disease...
...1980s revealed that 41 percent of wrestlers reported weight fluctuations of between five and nine kilograms every week of the season. While there are obvious short-term advantages to such a practice, weight "cutting" can throw off a wrestler's metabolic rate and can increase his risk of developing cardiovascular disease...
...lived. A 27-year study of 19,297 Harvard graduates revealed that men who weighed 20% less than average for their height and age had the lowest rate of death among the weight classifications surveyed. By contrast, for those men 20% heavier than average, the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease was 2.5 times that of men closer to their desirable weight...