According to a report released today by researchers at the University of Oxford (Great Britain), a healthier lifestyle, tobacco control, better medical practices and the widespread adoption of statins (drugs that lower cholesterol) have reduced death rates from heart disease by more than 40%. This report says there has been a 44.4% drop in the death rate for males in the UK and a 43.6% drop for females over the past decade. But cardiac pathologies remain despite everything the main cause of death in the country.
Overall, heart disease causes 45% of all deaths across Europe, twice as many as cancer (but only 27% in the UK). The study, led by Dr Nick Townsend, specifies that these diseases (cardiovascular disorders, stroke …) mainly affect seniors but that they also cause more than 1.4 million deaths in people aged under 75 years and nearly 700,000 deaths among those under 65.
In France, according to the National Institute for Public Health Surveillance (Invs), cardiovascular disease is the second leading cause of death. They have the particularity of causing significantly more “premature” deaths before age 65 than in other European countries, while mortality levels are very favorable for those over 65.
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