Coronary heart disease statistics

This is the sixteenth edition of Coronary Heart Disease Statistics produced by the British Heart Foundation.<br /><br />It is divided into 13 chapters.<br /><br /> * The first two chapters on mortality and morbidity deal with demographic trends in CHD and related diseases of the circulatory system. <br /> * 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.<br /> * The final chapter provides information about the economic costs of CHD.<br /><br />The compendium was published by the British Heart Foundation in July 2008.<br />