This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition DWP to rethink heart failure and other cardiac conditions are disability's
cardiac conditions such as heart failure, cardiac arrest, heart attacks kill more than 73,000 people in the UK each year. About 1 in 6 men and 1 in 10 women die from CHD. In the UK, there are an estimated 2.3 million people living with CHD and around 2 million people affected by angina
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Key facts & figures
Coronary Heart Disease remains the number 1 killer in the UK.
Deaths In the UK every year
160,000 people die from heart and circulatory disease.
73,000 people die from coronary heart disease (CHD).
40,000 people died from a stroke.
42,000 people died prematurely from cardiovascular disease (CVD).
1.2 million men and 900,000 are living with chronic angina
800,000 are living with heart failure
1.6 million men and 1 million women are living with coronary heart disease
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