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If researchers use doctor's diagnosis codes to track heart disease risks, they might miss people who have the condition but haven't been diagnosed yet — so the problem looks smaller than it really is.

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The study found that almost everyone who got heart disease had early signs of risk factors like high blood pressure or cholesterol, even if they hadn’t been diagnosed yet. This means using only diagnoses misses many at-risk people, which supports the claim.

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