cardiovascular disease

Among other things, they will continue to study how diet and lifestyle, in addition to drug treatment for cardiovascular disease, affect the risk of developing dementia.

More women in Northern Ireland die from cardiovascular diseases than from cancer, with heart failure the least well known of those diseases.

The number of hospital treatments and deaths due to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases also fell.

People with cardiovascular disease and who are classed as overweight, but not quite obese, can also be given the drug.

Doctors routinely offer preventative treatment to patients with medical conditions such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes that put them at a higher risk of heart attack or stroke.