Deaths from heart and circulatory disease are falling but it remains the biggest killer in the UK.
Heart Disease
Almost 1 in 5 men and 1 in 8 women die from heart disease.
Heart Disease is responsible for 82,000 deaths in the UK each year, an average of 224 people each day.
More than 26,000 people under the age of 75 in the UK died from Heart Disease in 2009
There are nearly 2.7 million people living with heart disease in the UK.
There are more than 1.6 million men and more than a million women with heart disease in the UK.
Death rates from heart disease are highest in Scotland and northern England and lowest in southern England.
The UK spends £3.2 billion each year on healthcare costs for heart disease.
Heart attack (myocardial infarction)
Most deaths from heart disease are caused by a heart attack.
There are around 124,000 heart attacks in the UK each year.
Around 62,000 men and 39,000 women in England suffer a heart attack each year.
In England, around 11% of men and 15% of women who were admitted to hospital with a heart attack die within 30 days.
The chances of dying from a heart attack increases with age and is higher in women than men.
We estimate there are around 1,000,000 men and nearly 500,000 women living in the UK who have had a heart attack. More than 900,000 of these are under the age of 75.
In Scotland, the number of heart attacks each year has decreased by around 25 per cent between 2000 and 2009 in both men and women, but is between 20 per cent and 35 per cent higher than England's incidence level.
Every six minutes someone dies of a heart attack in the UK.
One in three people who have a heart attack die before reaching hospital.
Heart failure
Around 750,000 people are living with heart failure in the UK.
We estimate there are more than 27,000 new cases of heart failure in the UK each year.
Incidence of heart failure is 60% higher in men compared with women.
Incidence of heart failure is highest in Northern Ireland.
Stroke
Stroke causes more than 49,000 deaths in the UK each year.
In England and Scotland, stroke incidence rates are about 25% higher in men than women.
Around 84,000 men and 68,000 women in England suffer a stroke every year.
There are approximately 152,000 strokes in the UK each year.
We estimate nearly 1.2 million people living in the UK have had a stroke - roughly evenly split between men and women. Around half of these people are under the age of 75.
Risk factors of heart disease
In Great Britain, 21% of adults smoke cigarettes.
Smoking increases the risk of heart disease and a study of British doctors found smokers had around a 60% greater chance of dying from heart disease than non smokers.
The prevalence of smoking is higher in Scotland and Northern Ireland compared to England and Wales.
Around 1/4 of adults in England are obese.
Around 30% of boys and girls aged 2 to 15 in England and Scotland are overweight or obese.
Only 1/3 of men and women currently eat the recommended five portions of fruit and veg per day in Britain.
Only around one in five boys and girls aged 5 to 15 consume the recommended amount of fruit and veg.
More than 1/3 of men and nearly 1/3 of women regularly exceed the government recommended level of alcohol intake.
Around one in three adults in England and Scotland have high blood pressure and nearly half of them are not receiving treatment for the condition.
Around 6 in 10 adults in England have blood cholesterol levels of 5mmol/l or above.
Statistics are taken from the British Heart Foundation 2010 update
