Cardiovascular disease effects around 7.6 million people in the United Kingdom according to the British Heart Foundation, (2024) broken down in the population to 4 million males and 3.6 million females. The British heart foundation also estimates 174,884 people die from cardiovascular related issues each year.

Risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease are:

• High blood pressure
• Diabetes
• High Cholesterol
• Smoking
• Obesity
• Poor diet and Exercise
• Age
• Ethnicity

Common symptoms of cardiovascular disease are:

• Coronary Heart Disease
• Heart attacks
• Arterial fibrillation (AF)
• Heart Failure
• Strokes
• Vascular dementia
• Cardiac arrests

And Peripheral Arterial Disease