Variation in heart disease death risk in England largely attributed to population characteristics

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - 17:30 in Health & Medicine

In England, a country with a universal access health care system, there is wide variation between local populations in the rate of death from coronary heart disease, which is largely explained by population characteristics such as low socioeconomic factors, white ethnicity, levels of smoking, and diabetes, according to a new study.

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