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 | Heart Disease Lead person: Julian Flowers |
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Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is the biggest killer in our society and the burden from this disease is massive: 2002 238,000 people died from CVD. CVD accounted for 39% of all deaths, half of them are caused by Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). The total costs for CHD were estimated at more than 7 billion in 1999. (Petersen S, Peto V and Rayner M (2004): Coronary heart disease statistics. BHF, London)
Cardiovascular disease is closely related to all of the well-known risk factors such as smoking, obesity and alcohol and fairness in the delivery of services for heart patients is a public health issue which is under close scrutiny.
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