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Your ethnicity and heart disease

Picnic TableYour ethnic background can increase your risk of getting coronary heart disease.

Find out about your risks, and get advice on the small lifestyle changes you can make to reduce them.





 

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How can I reduce my risk of heart disease?

Find out more about managing your particular risks if you are:

Bangladeshi

Indian

Pakistani

African Caribbean


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How ethnicity affects your heart disease risk

Statistics show that in the UK:

  • coronary heart disease rates are the highest in South Asian communities
  • stroke rates are the highest in people with an African Caribbean background
  • you have a higher risk of developing high blood pressure if you are from an African Caribbean background than all the ethnic groups in the UK
  • the prevalence of type-2 diabetes for people of African Caribbean and South Asian ethnicity is much higher than in the rest of the population.