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Major cardiovascular diseases include diseases of
heart, essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease, cerebrovascular
diseases, atherosclerosis and other diseases of circulatory system.
To control
for the impact of population aging, comparisons over time are made using the
"age-standardized mortality rate." This removes the effect of differences
in the age structure of populations among areas and over time.
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