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There are some 270,000 heart attacks in the UK each year. However the medical advances of recent decades means that having heart disease is no longer a death sentence. Coronary heart disease.
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There are some 270,000 heart attacks in the UK each year. However the medical advances of recent decades means that having heart disease is no longer a death sentence. Coronary heart disease can affect anyone - men and women. In fact, there are some 270,000 heart attacks in the UK each year while around 2.1 million people have experienced angina, a chest pain which is the main symptom of coronary heart disease. A diagnosis of coronary heart disease can be extremely shocking. However, medical advances of the past few decades mean that coronary heart disease is far from being a death sentence. What is more, there are many steps you can take to help prevent or reduce your risk of coronary heart disease. The overwhelming cause of coronary heart disease is atherosclerosis. This is a build up of fatty materials within the walls of the arteries. This occurs when the inner lining of...
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