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Show Control of Heart Disease Rests With the People Success in controlling heart disease, the leading cause o? death in the United States, depends on each American taking the initiative to get regular medcal checkups and if necessary, to alter livinj habits. This is the message from the American Heart Association Associ-ation in its annual report released re-leased recently. The report notes that research re-search is constantly expanding expand-ing our scientific and medical medi-cal knowledge and that this is bringing us closer to the day when heart attack, stroke and other cardiova;. cular disease can be prevented prevent-ed or subsequently controlled. But the real key to the victory vic-tory against these diseases is held by the people, stresses stress-es the Heart Association report, re-port, which is entitled "Only You Can Make It Happen." It adds that thousands oE Americans are unaware that " their risk of heart attack . and stroke may be increasing, increas-ing, so are failing, to take , the measures which research scientists have discovered are likely to reduce that risk. The report continues by stating that Americans under age 65, the death rate from Cardiovascular disease fias been reduced by 18 percent ; since 1950. But the disease continues to kill more than : one million Americans each year, Heart attacks claims more Hum C74.O0O lives each year and stroke accounts ier approximately 211,000 more. The American HeaVt As. socian, comprised of 55 affiliates, af-filiates, including the Utah Heart Association, works to reduce death and distbility from cardiovascular diseases through medical research, community programs, public education, and education for doctors and nurses. All the programs are made possible through contributions contribu-tions to the Heart Fund which in 1971 raised more than $45 million. The Utah Heart Association raised more than $180,000 in 1971. |