Allender, Steven, Peto, Vito, Scarborough, Peter, Boxer, Anna and Rayner, Mike 2007, Coronary heart disease statistics, British Heart Foundation & Stroke Association, Oxford, England.
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.
Language
eng
Field of Research
111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective
970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences
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