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What makes cardiovascular diseases so common in the united states?
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Too Much Indulgence: Bad diet, lack of exercise, living to be older than nature expected, and the general failure of our genes to protect us from these illnesses. Give it another 10, 000 years and hopefully we'll adapt.
Answered 9/29/2019
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Many reasons: Heredity diet smoking sedentary life diabetes are some of the factors.
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