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Progress and Promise

Claude Lenfant, MD

JAMA. 1999;282:2068-2070.

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This issue of THE JOURNAL reflects many of the numerous research and clinical advances that have occurred in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cardiovascular disease and, at the same time, provides a window on many issues that will challenge the cardiovascular research community in the years to come. Clearly, the understanding of cardiovascular disease is progressing rapidly and the resulting scientific opportunities are so abundant that continued progress will bring new benefits to patients.

When the National Heart Institute—now the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute—was founded in 1948, the country was suffering from what was then termed the heart attack epidemic. Since that time, considerable progress has been made in the development of effective strategies for treatment and prevention, many of which have been widely applied. As a result, there has been a steady decline in the death rates due to the most common . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

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