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Autopsy findings suggest end of decline in coronary disease rates

Autopsies of individuals in one Minnesota County suggest that the decades-long decline in the rate of coronary artery disease may have ended and possibly reversed after 2000, according to a report in the Feb. 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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