BOSTON (Reuters) - Lifestyle changes, new drugs and treatment advances were equally responsible for a dramatic drop in U.S. heart disease deaths during the 1980s and 1990s, U.S. and British researchers reported on Wednesday.
But increasing levels of diabetes and obesity are bucking that trend now, the team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Britain's University of Liverpool and Newcastle University said.
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