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The reason numbers are normalized is to put them in a comparative state. This is important when comparing one subset against another. For instance, 380K deaths in the US in 2010 is a small percentage but compared to say Panama it is a huge number.
In any case here it is;

Again, this data scrubs all deaths from heart diseases other than atherosclerosis. As you can clearly see, death rates did not start to decline until the mid 1980s. It is in thousands, not hundreds of thousands but the line would be identical.View Thread

Here's the actual:

This is a "what if" chart which is simply a representation of a theory. It's inaccuracy can be seen by the note of 380K actual deaths in 2010 when the "what if" graph projects approx 100K deaths. Even the one you post shows an end point inaccuracy.
Also, this graph concerns projected data and end points and I know there is some here that have said often they don't rely on data that is projected.View Thread


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In either case, if the population is growing by 1% per year and less people are dying of CVD since 2000 then there has been a huge change.
The other issue is your use of the heart disease only line. In this line you are including all the diseases not related to atherosclerosis. If we are keeping more people alive that would have died from things like LVH or cardiac arrest then isn't likely that there has been a shift up in atherosclerosis related deaths? After all, it is in the "other" disease that there has been much more progress in medical treatment. Here's the chart excluding all genetic and non-atherosclerosis related deaths from 1979 thru 2008;
Note the big decline around 1987, this certainly does not look like a constant line to me.If you spread any data line out over 100 years it will lose the detail especially if you include additional data that in general is fixed. These are the filtered numbers so we're only looking at atherosclerosis related deaths, not all heart disease inclusive.
Here it is over a longer period;

The decline in atherosclerosis related deaths only start much later. The reason for the decline is still subject to interpretation.View Thread


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Here it is again for you;

Notice I don't just cherry pick one line, I include all the data.View Thread

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I don't think I can agree with that.View Thread
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