TUESDAY, May 3 (HealthDay News) -- The number of heart patients
getting bypass surgery fell by nearly 40 percent between 2001 and 2008,
new U.S. research finds.



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The drop likely reflects several factors, including a decline in
smoking rates, which has led to less coronary artery disease, said
senior study author Dr. Peter Groeneveld, an assistant professor of
medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.



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