Cardiovascular disease: early deaths in England at highest rate in more than a decade

British Heart Foundation says its figures reveal ‘the worst heart care crisis in living memory’

Premature deaths from cardiovascular disease have reached their highest rate in England for more than a decade, figures reveal.

According to the British Heart Foundation (BHF), the rate at which people under 75 died from heart problems was in decline before the Covid pandemic, although progress slowed between 2012 and 2019.