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Rosamond et al. Respond to "Are Heart Attacks Gone with the Century?"
1 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
2 Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
3 Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD.
4 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, State University of New York, Albany, NY.
5 Department of Epidemiology and Health Services Evaluation, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel.
6 Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS.
7 Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Received for publication September 16, 2004; accepted for publication September 22, 2004.
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We thank Dr. Roger for her discerning and perceptive remarks (1) on our article (2). We would like to follow up on two of the important points she raised.
The first point relates to the adoption of troponin in community practice and its impact on evaluating trends in hospitalized myocardial infarction. Dr. Roger astutely raises the issue of site-specific differences