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More than 85 percent of the debilitating illnesses of old age result

from only a handful of diseases—cancer, coronary artery disease, stroke,

diabetes, kidney failure, obstructive lung disease, pneumonia, and influ-

enza. Heart disease, all by itself, accounts for one out of every two deaths

of older Americans, and high blood pressure directly causes or contrib-

utes to 15 percent of all deaths.