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Does Lifestyle Affect the Development of Coronary Heart Disease? Coronary heart disease (CHD) - also known as ischaemic heart disease - is the number one cause of death in Britain and is the most common form of heart disease. 'It accounts for over 175,000 deaths per year, approximately one in four deaths in mean and one in six deaths in women. In the world today around 1.5 million people suffer from angina.' (www.bhf.co.uk, 2003) This is the most common form of CHD. The most common cause of CHD is atherosclerosis. CHD refers to atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries. Atherosclerosis is the result of an atheroma forming in an artery or the hardening of the arteries. The coronary arteries increasingly build up fat and cholesterol deposits from the blood. Due to calcium salts in the blood the deposits become hard, this therefore makes the walls of the arteries hard and less elastic. The...

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