During recent decades, death rates from cardiovascular disease
A) have been quite consistent across all nations of the world.
B) dropped faster in Eastern Europe than in the United States.
C) have been higher for Russian women than for Russian men.
D) increased greatly in the former USSR but are now dropping.
Question 2
The decline in deaths from cardiovascular disease during the last four decades of the 20th century was due to
A) better dietary practices.
B) reduction in cigarette smoking.
C) improvements in medical care.
D) a combination of all of these.
