Mortality

scanDeaths from heart and circulatory disease are falling but it remains the UK's biggest killer.

In 2009, over 180,000 people died from cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the UK - one in three of all deaths.

In 2009, around one in five male deaths and one in eight female deaths were from coronary heart disease (CHD) - a total of around 82,000 deaths. Stroke caused over 49,000 deaths in the UK.

CVD is one of the main causes of death in people under 75 in the UK. 28 per cent of premature deaths in men and almost 20 per cent of premature deaths in women were from CVD in 2009. In 2009 over 45,000 people under 75 died from CVD.

CHD, by itself, is the most common cause of death in the under 75s in the UK. 17 per cent of premature deaths in men and 8 per cent of premature deaths in women were from CHD, which caused over 25,000 premature deaths in the UK in 2009.

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Statistics on Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease Statistics 2010

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