1. Missing the forest for the trees: The world around us and surgical treatment of endocarditis 
Victor A. Ferraris, MD, PhD, Michael E. Sekela, MD 
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 
Volume 152, Issue 3, Pages (September 2016)
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2. Figure 1 Increasing incidence of endocarditis in rural Appalachia.
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3. Figure 2
Increasing death rates in white, midlife Americans. USW, US white non-Hispanics; FRA, France; GER, Germany; USH, US Hispanics; UK, United Kingdom; CAN, Canada; AUS, Australia; SWE, Sweden.
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4. Figure 3
Heroin admissions, by age group and race/ethnicity between 2001 and
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5. Increasing incidence of endocarditis in rural Appalachia.
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