GP recorded coronary heart disease rates

<p>A dataset providing GP recorded&nbsp;coronary heart disease.&nbsp;</p> <p>Coronary heart disease (CHD)&nbsp;is the leading cause of death both in the UK and worldwide.</p> <p>It's responsible for more than 73,000 deaths in the UK each year. About 1 in 6 men and 1 in 10 women die from CHD.</p> <p>In the UK, there are an estimated 2.3 million people living with CHD and around 2 million people affected by&nbsp;<a style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 1em; color: #0064b7;" href="http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Angina/Pages/Introduction.aspx">angina</a>&nbsp;(the most common symptom of coronary heart disease).&nbsp;</p> <p>CHD generally affects more men than women, although&nbsp;from the age of 50 the chances of developing&nbsp;the condition&nbsp;are similar for both sexes.</p> <p>As well as angina (chest pain), the main symptoms of CHD are&nbsp;<a style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 1em; color: #0064b7;" href="http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/heart-attack/Pages/Introduction.aspx">heart attacks</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 1em; color: #0064b7;" href="http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Heart-failure/Pages/Introduction.aspx">heart failure</a>. However, not everyone has the same symptoms and some people may not have any before CHD is diagnosed.</p> <p>CHD is sometimes called ischaemic heart disease.</p>