UK and Coronary Heart disease
•	Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the UK's biggest killer. 
•	Around one in five men and one in seven women die from the disease
•	CHD causes around 94,000 deaths in the UK each year.
•	In the UK, there are an estimated 2.6 million people living with the condition and angina (the most common symptom of coronary heart disease) affects 2 million people
•	CHD affects more men than women, and your chances of getting it increase as you get older.

Coronary heart disease
•	Coronary heart disease is the term that describes what happens when your heart's blood supply is blocked or interrupted by a build-up of fatty substances in the coronary arteries.
•	Over time, the walls of your arteries can become furred up with fatty deposits. This process is known as atherosclerosis and the fatty deposits are called atheroma. If your coronary arteries become narrow due to a build-up of atheroma, the blood supply to your heart will be restricted. This can cause angina (chest pains).
•	If a coronary artery becomes completely blocked, it can cause a heart attack. The medical term for a heart attack is myocardial infarction.

Lifestyle risk factors that can be prevented or changed:
•	Smoking.
•	Lack of physical activity (a sedentary lifestyle).
•	Obesity.
•	An unhealthy diet and eating too much salt.
•	Excess alcohol.
Treatable or partly treatable risk factors:
•	Hypertension (high blood pressure).
•	High cholesterol blood level.
•	High triglyceride (fat) blood level.
•	Diabetes.
•	Kidney diseases causing diminished kidney function.
Fixed risk factors - ones that you cannot alter:
•	A strong family history. This means if you have a father or brother who developed heart disease or a stroke before they were 55, or in a mother or sister before they were 65.
•	Being male.
•	Severe baldness in men at the top of the head.
•	An early menopause in women.
•	Age. The older you become, the more likely you are to develop atheroma.
•	Ethnic group. For example, people who live in the UK with ancestry from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka have an increased risk.
Lifestyle Impacts
•	The disease means that there is an increased alliance with motorised transport
•	It brings on the likelihood of developing diabetes, high blood pressure reducing increasing the chance of illness
•	In the UK it comes with obesity generally. This means that vocational jobs are unavailable for these people and decreases their chance of being employed in business’ like construction
Economic Impacts
•	Coronary heart disease cost £1.73 billion to the UK health care system in 1999
•	£2.42 billion in informal care
•	24.1% of production losses were attributable to mortality and 75.9% to morbidity
•	The total annual cost of all coronary heart disease related burdens was £7.06 billion, the highest of all diseases in the UK for which comparable analyses have been done
Prevention strategies
•	NHS has set up many strategies to implement lifestyle changes to sufferers
•	Easier access to cardiologists
•	Creation of British Heart Foundation set up to increase research and support for sufferers
•	Leaflets on how to prevent it and adverts put up around the country to support a healthy diet