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'Heart disease rises among the young'
26 February 2008 17:10:25
Earlier this month the government announced it had met its target for reducing the number of deaths from heart disease five years ahead of schedule but researchers maintain that cases of the disease in the US, UK and Australia are actually increasing - particularly among people aged 35 to 54.
A report in the Times stated that while cardiovascular death rates are falling among the elderly they are levelling off or even rising among younger people due to smoking, excessive drinking and unhealthy diets - a finding which may affect life insurance policies.
Simon Capewell, professor of clinical epidemiology at Liverpool University told the newspaper: "The party is over and complacency runs a high risk. The flattening trends in mortality rates among young adults suggest that the cardiovascular disease epidemic is not being controlled."
According to the government's Coronary Heart Disease National Service Framework Progress Report, there has been a 40 per cent reduction in the number of deaths from cardiovascular disease in people under the age of 75.
Professor Capewell reports, however, that in 2002 heart disease mortality among men aged between 35 and 44 increased for the first time in more than two decades.
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