Premature Mortality from Cardiovascular Disease in the Americas – Will the Goal of a Decline of “25% by 2025” be Met?

• Pedro Ordunez ,

  * E-mail: ordunezp@paho.org

  Affiliation Pan American Health Organization, Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, 525 23rd Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20037, United States of America

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• Elisa Prieto-Lara,

  Affiliation Pan American Health Organization, Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, 525 23rd Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20037, United States of America

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• Vilma Pinheiro Gawryszewski,

  Affiliation Pan American Health Organization, Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, 525 23rd Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20037, United States of America

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• Anselm J. M. Hennis,

  Affiliation Pan American Health Organization, Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, 525 23rd Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20037, United States of America

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• Richard S. Cooper

  Affiliation Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Maywood, IL, 60153, United States of America

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