Cardiovascular
(heart and circulatory) disease
Cardiovascular disease is an umbrella term for
all diseases of the heart and circulation, including
heart disease, stroke, heart failure and congenital
heart disease.
Collectively, heart and circulatory diseases
cause more than one in three of all deaths in
the UK, accounting for around 200,000 deaths each
year.
Coronary heart disease - more
infomation click here
Heart disease, by itself, is the UK’s biggest
killer and the most common cause of premature
death in the UK (death before the age of 75).
BHF current figures show:
one in five men and one in seven women die from
heart disease
that’s around 94,000 deaths in the UK each
year; over 250 every day
around 2.5 million people are living with heart
disease in the UK.
Heart attack
Most deaths from heart disease are caused by
a heart attack
Every six minutes someone dies of a heart attack
in the UK. One in three people who have a heart
attack die before reaching hospital.
Heart failure - more information
click here
Around 700,000 people are living with heart failure
in the UK.
Stroke
Stroke causes over 55,000 deaths in the UK each
year.
Congenital heart disease
Around 4,600 babies are born with congenital
heart disease each year in the UK.
Heart disease stats
All the statistics above come from the British
Heart Foundation Coronary Heart Disease Statistics
2008, which are available at www.heartstats.org
For more information please visit http://www.bhf.org.uk/
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