| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - As viewed against this background, the enormous increase in death from cardiovascular disease in the US between 1900 and 1960 can be seen as the result of a number of factors, including the increase in longevity due to the reduction in deaths due to infectious diseases (thus allowing conditions that predispose individuals to atherosclerosis, such as hypertension and diabetes, to operate over a lon
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