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Cardiovascular (heart and circulatory) disease causes more than a quarter of all deaths
in the UK, or around 160,000 deaths each year.
There are an estimated 7 million people living with cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the
UK.
The total cost of premature death, lost productivity, hospital treatment and
prescriptions relating to cardiovascular disease is estimated at 19 billion each year.
Most deaths from coronary heart disease are caused by a heart attack.
There are up to 175,000 heart attacks in the UK each year; thats one every three
minutes.
Around 110,000 men and 65,000 women in the UK suffer a heart attack each year.
Stroke
Over 1 million people in the UK have been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation.
It is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands more living with undiagnosed AF.
Risk Factors
There are 3.3 million adults in the UK diagnosed with diabetes. In addition, hundreds of
thousands more are living with undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes.
Nearly one in five adults smoke in the UK - the prevalence of smoking among adults is
lower in England (18%) than in Northern Ireland (22%), Scotland (21%) and Wales
(21%).
More than 100,000 smokers in the UK die from smoking-related causes each year.
An estimated 22,000 deaths each year from cardiovascular disease can be attributed to
smoking.
Around a quarter of adults in the UK are obese and in addition more than a third are
overweight (based on BMI).
Around 30 per cent of children in the UK are overweight or obese.
One-third of men and nearly half of women in England do not achieve recommended
levels of physical activity.
Only a quarter of adults and one in five children consume the recommended five
portions of fruit and vegetables per day.
More than a third of men and over a quarter of women regularly exceed the
government recommended limits for alcohol intake.
Over a quarter of adults in the UK have high blood pressure and as many as half of
them are not receiving treatment for the condition.
Over half of adults in the UK have high blood cholesterol levels (5mmol/l or above).