CABG facts & figures
- Coronary heart disease causes over 117,000 deaths a year in the UK, which accounts for approximately one in five deaths in men and one in six deaths in women (1)
- Around 2.5 million people in the UK are living with coronary heart disease (2)
- More than 28,000 heart bypass operations (3) are carried out every year in the UK
- The majority of people who have a heart bypass operation are men over 60 (4)
- Heart bypass is not a cure for heart disease. If you don't make lifestyle changes by stopping smoking or eating too much saturated fat, you'll be back at square one again
Infolinks
References:
- NHS Birmingham Foundation Trust | Cardiology: coronary artery disease
| Accessed Sep 2009 | - British Heart Foundation | 2008 Statistics | Accessed Sep 2009 |
- Connock, Wilson, Song, Hyde & Meads | Chelation therapy for Intermittent Claudication and Coronary Heart Disease | A Birmingham Technology Assessment Group Report | University of Birmingham (2002) | Accessed Sep 2009
- Barakate, Hemli & Hughes et al | Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) after initially successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA): a review of 17 years experience | NHS Economic Evaluation Database | Accessed Sep 2009 | University of York (2008)
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