Coronary Heart Disease Statistics Book 2010

Overview

This is the 17th edition of Coronary Heart Disease Statistics published by the British Heart Foundation. The series of publications began twenty years ago, aiming to document the burden of coronary heart disease (CHD) in the United Kingdom. Since then the publication has expanded to include information on other cardiovascular conditions including stroke and heart failure and dedicated sections on cardiovascular risk factors.

Coronary Heart Disease Statistics is designed for health professionals, medical researchers and anyone with an interest in CHD. It is a compendium of the latest statistics drawn from a variety of sources including national statistics, hospital episode statistics, national and international surveys and peer-reviewed journal articles. Most of the information that appears in the compendium has been previously published elsewhere, but there are a number of tables and figures that are new to this publication (for example: CHD mortality rates by local authority in the UK; estimates of the incidence of heart attack, stroke, heart failure and angina).