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Factors Affecting The Development Of Coronary Heart Disease Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) has huge costs to every industrial country and indeed many developing countries. CHD costs the NHS £500 million pounds every year1 in England and Wales. However, the human costs of CHD are much more serious than any financial ones. CHD accounts for 26% of all deaths in England and Wales2, this means that CHD is the most important and common cause of premature death in the UK. CHD also causes serious discomfort and pain in many people due to such problems as angina and other related heart problems. CHD is caused by a thickening of the inside walls of the coronary arteries. This thickening, called atherosclerosis, (sometimes called 'furring' of the arteries) narrows the space through which blood can flow (by means of an atheroma), decreasing and sometimes completely cutting off the supply of blood and therefore...

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