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Cardiovascular Disease - A Modern Day Epidemic Cardiovascular disease has been described as a 'modern epidemic', with it representing the second preventable cause of death in the United States of America, second only to smoking. The disease claimed 927,448 lives in 2002, that's 38 percent of all deaths and it accounts for the most deaths worldwide. Fig. 1.1 - Death Indictor - Nearly all these deaths were preventable. The reason for cardiovascular diseases to be more prevalent in the developed world is our lifestyle. In 1998, 44 percent of all deaths in the developed world were because of cardiovascular diseases, compare that to the developing world, where we only see it at 29 percent. Our lifestyle is a major factor because of the food we eat and the way we conduct ourselves. With the collapse of the industrial sector in the UK - coal mining, steal manufacture - its not surprising that...

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