Heart and Circulatory Diseases Cause a Quarter of All Deaths in The UK
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26th May 2022
Heart and Circulatory Diseases Cause a Quarter of All Deaths in The UK
Heart and circulatory diseases cause a quarter of all deaths in the UK, that’s more than 160,000 deaths each year – an average of 460 deaths each day or one every three minutes in the UK.
There are around 7.6 million people living with a heart or circulatory disease in the UK: 4 million men and 3.6 million women.
In the UK there are as many as 100,000 hospital admissions each year due to heart attacks: that’s one every five minutes.
Around 1.4 million people alive in the UK today have survived a heart attack.
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