Coronary heart disease statistics.

TLDR

The fifteenth edition of Coronary Heart Disease Statistics, published by the British Heart Foundation in July 2007, is organized into 13 chapters covering mortality, morbidity, treatment, modifiable risk factors, and economic costs. This edition is the fifteenth release of the Coronary Heart Disease Statistics series by the British Heart Foundation.

Abstract

This is the fifteenth edition of Coronary Heart Disease Statistics produced by the British Heart Foundation. It is divided into 13 chapters. * The first two chapters on mortality and morbidity deal with demographic trends in CHD and related diseases of the circulatory system. * Following a section on treatment of CHD there are chapters on the main modifiable risk factors for the disease: smoking, an unhealthy diet, lack of physical activity, a high alcohol consumption, poor psychosocial wellbeing, raised blood pressure, raised blood cholesterol, obesity and diabetes. * The final chapter provides information about the economic costs of CHD. The compendium was published by the British Heart Foundation in July 2007.