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Coronary heart disease is the most common serious medical condition affecting people in the Western world. The disease can strike at any age, although it is more common in the elderly. It affects men and women, rich
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Coronary heart disease is the most common serious medical condition affecting people in the Western world. The disease can strike at any age, although it is more common in the elderly. It affects men and women, rich and poor, black and white.1 In the United Kingdom some 275,000 people every year will have a heart attack and around 120,000 will die, making heart disease the UK's number one health problem.2 The heart is one of the hardest working organs in the body; it contracts and expands 100,000 times everyday. It supplies a blood vessel network 96,000 kilometres long and pumps in excess of 10,000 litres of blood around the body every day. This constant stress makes it especially vulnerable to damage and disease.3 Coronary heart disease results from the coronary arteries becoming narrowed with fatty deposits on the inside wall. The fatty deposits take years to build up and this process...
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