The Nation - News from May 2, 1986
AIDS is the third leading cause of death and the No. 1 killer of men aged 20 to 54 in New York City, a health official reported. “It’s cancer, heart disease, AIDS” in New York, said Alan Kristal of the city’s Department of Health. “And it’s the leading cause of death for men 40 to 44, higher than heart disease,” he said in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. Although the figures for New York are atypical of the nation as a whole, Kristal said they should serve as a warning of what may happen.
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