Heart charity reveals UK is cultivating hidden hotbeds of heart disease

"The United Kingdom is cultivating hidden hotbeds of heart disease, the British Heart Foundation can reveal today. Recent reports of declining death rates at a national and regional level are hiding the grim reality for those living in significant pockets of deprivation, according to our new figures. In some local authority areas, people living in one ward are five times as likely to die from heart disease as those living just half a mile away. The new figures highlighting potential future 'supercentres' of heart disease were released by the BHF as we launched a major new GBP9 million programme to tackle inequalities in heart disease. The BHF's UK-wide Hearty Lives programme will give those born into deprived areas a greater chance of living to see their grandchildren grow up, and better support if they do develop heart disease."