HEART DISEASE MAP

BY KEITH NUTHALLBRITAIN'S performance in reducing heart disease deaths could be much improved compared with many of its European Union (EU) partners, a new World Health Organisation heart disease atlas, has shown.Dividing a country's annual deaths from heart disease with its population, saturated fats and beer loving Britain had a comparative factor of 2, based on 120,530 deaths in 2002 amongst a population of 59 million. France performed much better at 0.8, however, with its penchant for red wine and fresh food yielding 46,132 deaths for its 59 million ...


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