Did You Know?

• Heart and circulatory disease is the UK’s biggest killer.
  In 2004, over 113,000 women died from heart and circulatory disease in the UK – 38,000 more than died from cancer.
  
  
• In the UK, someone has a heart attack every two minutes and almost 2.6 million people have heart and circulatory disease.
  
  
• Physical activity, obesity and diabetes are major risk factors for coronary heart disease. Rates of physical activity in the UK are low: around 70% of adults do less than the recommended 30 minutes of activity five times a week.
  
  
• Levels of obesity and diabetes are increasing rapidly. In England, obesity has increased by 50% in adults in the past decade, and diabetes has doubled in men and increased by 80% in women since 1991.
  
  
• Since the introduction of the Coronary Heart Disease National Service Framework in 2000 there have been significant improvements in the treatment of CHD in the NHS.
  
  
• The British Heart Foundation is the largest source of funds for independent heart research in this country.