Abstract
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a major cause of death in Western countries, and increasingly so in Eastern European and some developing countries. There are wide variations in death rates due to CHD around the world; those in the United Kingdom (UK) are among the highest.
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Ashwell, M. (1997). Epidemiology. In: Ashwell, M. (eds) Diet and Heart Disease. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0087-5_1
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