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During World War II diseases of the heart and blood vessels were the United States' number one public-health enemy. They killed more people than the next five leading causes of death combined (excluding accidents). Although 325,000 American men died in battle, during the same period two million Americans died from heart disease. Despite the dimensions of the problem, at that time there were only 374 physicians specializing in cardiology in the United States. The U.S. Census Bureau reported in 1945 that nearly twice as many U.S. citizens died of cancer during 1942-1944 as were killed by enemy action in World War II.
Sources "Killer No 1," Time (9 February 1948) 71-72,
"Medicine," Time (31 December 1945) 71
Medical Accomplishments and the War.
By the war's end many medical advances became available for civilian as well as military use. Vaccines were created to lessen the incidence of typhus, cholera, and...|
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