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Show Fund Monies Provide Means to Save Lives Does heart research pay off? And Is heart research now as of j this very moment saving lives? I According to D. L. Sargent, chairman of the Cedar City Heart Fund campaign, the answer to i both questions is yet! And, he I exr-.'ained by answering yes to these questions you also answer the question of whether or not i the money derived from the an-' nual Heart Fund campaign Is necessary. i Perhaps the most growing, successful suc-cessful Illustration that can be cited Is the newjy-developed knowledge that rheumatic fever, forerunner of rheumatic heart disease di-sease can be prevented In most cases. The importance of this knowledge, knowl-edge, becomes readily apparent when we realize that rheumatic fever causes about 90 per cent of all heart disease in children, affecting about 500,000 children of school age In the United States. Stat-es. Rheumatic fever Is almost always al-ways preceded by a "strep" Infection, Infec-tion, especially "strep" sore throat or acute tonsllitis. Medical science now has at its disposal the means to present both InitiaJ and recurrent at-tacs at-tacs of rheumatic fever. Much of the knowledge, Sargent pointed out, has been gained through the research that has been conducted as a result of money contributed to the Heart Fund campaign. Activities have been slated throughout the month In Cedar City for the fund and It will be climaxed, the chairman said, with the door to door campaign to be conducted on Sunday, Feb. 26. At that time citizens have been asked to open your heart, and give generously." |