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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