Heart Disease
Distribution
Treatments
Are strategies effective?
Statistics
Causes
Effects
Controlling
Health better in rich places, people live longer
Illness & disease differs
Spread isn't even
Every 7 minutes someone in the UK will have a heart attack
Every 12 minutes someone in the UK will have a stoke
Scotland's biggest killer
Costing UK economy £19 billion
1/3 of all deaths
34% productivity losses
20% informal care
46% direct healthcare costs
Lowers life expectancy
Children inherit from parents
Inability to work
Strain on services
Health costs increase
NHS - insufficient beds
Stopping smoking
Medication and surgery
Doing regular exercise
Artificial heart valves
Defibrillators
Pace makers
Bypass surgery
Blood pressure and cholesterol checkups
Drugs
Stress
Better diet is working
Obese children in Scotland increasing
Eating more fruit and veg, less butter and full fat milk
Still not taking enough exercise
Numbers smoking has decreased
Due to ban of smoking in public
Stress levels not decreasing
More regular check ups
Being overweight or obese
Fatty diets
Family history
Smoking
Lack of exercise
Nicotine leads to blood clots
Produces adrenaline, making heart work harder
Smokers twice as likely to get hear disease
Heart attacks and CHD come from heart disease
Saturated fats can increase cholesterol and chance of heart disease
Cream, cheese, butter, chocolate
Caused by overworking
Blood pressure increases
Risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes
High cholesterol and high blood pressure can be inherited
Cardiovascular disease can be hereditary
Become overweight
Blood pressure and cholesterol go up
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