Coronary Heart Disease
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- Created on: 26-03-14 08:25
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- Coronary Heart Disease
- Risk Factors
- Elevated Blood Cholestrol
- Elevated Blood Pressure
- Diabetes
- Smoking
- Obesity
- Inactivity
- Excessive Alcohol
- Excessive Stress
- Impacts on Health
- Before treatment the patient can experience shortness of breath and fatigue with only light exercise.
- swelling in their feet, ankles, legs and abdomen.
- pain in their chest, shoulders, arms or neck (angina).
- develop a life threatening arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat that can mean the body does not receive enough blood)
- After treatment there may be side effects from the medication
- psychological effects of having a heart attack/nearly dying
- people become depressed or anxious
- It kills more than 110,000 people in England every year.
- 74,000 deaths in the UK each year, an average of 200 people each day
- More than 25,000 people under the age of 75 in the UK die from CHD each year
- Death rates from coronary heart disease are highest in Scotland and northern England and lowest in southern England
- Impact on economic development (economic costs)
- 2009 CVD cost the UK health care system around £9 billion
- 64% was for hospital care
- 23% was for medication
- heart disease results in £3bn of lost earnings to the economy.
- The UK spends nearly £2 billion each year on the healthcare costs of treating coronary heart disease.
- 2009 CVD cost the UK health care system around £9 billion
- Impacts on lifestyle
- 2.3 million people living with coronary heart disease in the UK
- 1.4 million men and almost 900,000 women with CHD in the UK
- Prevention
- You can usually prevent coronary heart disease by adopting a healthy lifestyle.
- Quit Smoking
- Loosing excess weight
- doing regular physical activity – aim to do 150 minutes of moderate exercise each week
- Eating a Healthy Balanced Diet
- not exceeding three to four units of alcohol a day for men or two to three units for women
- Change4Life scheme
- Some supermarkets have started to sell healthier foods at discounted prices to attract customers
- ASDA has backed the scheme well
- You can usually prevent coronary heart disease by adopting a healthy lifestyle.
- Risk Factors
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