In the middle of the 1900s, heart disease started killing more people in the U.S. than anything else, because more people were developing clogged heart arteries — and it stayed the top killer until the late 1960s, when it started to drop a bit.

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The epidemic of the 20(th) century: coronary heart disease.

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2014 Sep

This study says heart disease became the top killer in America around the middle of the 1900s because more people smoked and ate unhealthy foods, which clogged their arteries — and then it started falling after the 1960s because people quit smoking, ate better, and got better medical care.

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The epidemic of the 20(th) century: coronary heart disease.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.04.015

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