British Heart Foundation
Why middle-aged men are sitting on a heart health timebomb
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Sarah Carter
Drane accepts that stress may have contributed to his ill-health: he scaled back his work commitments, finally retiring two years ago. “I ...
NHS patients waiting up to a year with suspected heart issues
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Sarah Carter
NHS patients are waiting up to a year with suspected heart issues for “rapid access chest pain clinics” when they should be ...
Heart disease most common health condition preventing people working
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Sarah Carter
Chris Thomas, head of IPPR’s Commission on Health and Prosperity, said: “After great strides in tackling cardiovascular disease in the 20th century, ...
Early deaths from heart disease soar to ten-year high in wake of Covid
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Sarah Carter
Analysis by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) has found that 80 people in every 100,000 in England died from heart and circulatory ...
NHS to raise statin dosage in bid to slash cholesterol
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Sarah Carter
Two million people will be advised to boost their statin dose in order to slash their cholesterol levels under new NHS targets. ...
Something’s fishy about the ONS’s excess death figures
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The Office for National Statistics has revised its estimate of the number of excess deaths in the UK last year. At 10,994, ...