looking at the whole group of cardiovascular diseases it appears that a continuous and clear decline in stroke mortality ( -14.6 % in males and -22.0 % in females aged 35-74 ) explains almost completely the overall decrease of cardiovascular mortality observed during the period 1970-1979 which corresponds to -8.4 % in males and -24.3 % in females .
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