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About In the bundled CDC WONDER D158 final snapshot for United States residents with known age, 2018-2024 heart-disease deaths increase by 28,135. Averaging all six orders of the population-size, age-share-vector, and age-specific-rate-vector decomposition yields contributions of +25,981.4, +26,512.2, and -24,358.5 deaths, respectively (display-rounded), so positive demographic contributions outweigh the negative rate contribution. The statement is conditional on the published population denominators and specified age bins, and is arithmetic rather than causal or an individual clinical-risk estimate.

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