Coronary Heart Disease

Coronary heart disease caused by narrowing and blockage of the heart arteries causes angina, heart attacks and heart failure. It remains one of the commonest causes of mortality in the UK and globally. Public health interventions and improvements in treatment have steadily reduced deaths from coronary heart disease.
This lecture will discuss the causes of coronary heart disease and advances in reducing its effects.
A lecture by Professor Sir Chris Whitty recorded on January 10, 2023 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/co...
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[@huskymom234]

Excellent overview. Thank you

[@yangtse55]

I'm lucky that I never took up tobacco smoking, but in my 30s I got very fit dancing all night in warehouses and I must have inhaled a fair amount of smoke.
It's crazy looking back to the university where I worked in the 90s when smoke used to billow out of refreshment rooms all over the site - so it was inflicted on non-smokers.
As a child in the 60s there was smoking everywhere.
Tobacco killed both my maternal grandfather and his son who both died of heart attacks when they were a decade or two younger than I am now - both being over 6 foot 6 would probably not have helped.
I feel lucky that genetics made me a fair bit shorter and that I never took up the habit.

[@heikkipitkanen208]

Thank you for these lectures. These are very well made and thought out. 10/10. :)

[@monicacampbell6242]

This is been try out in USA

[@YvonneWilson312]

Wow. Not often does a video leave me speechless...

[@michaelhall2138]

why?

[@dorothybrown9384]

I’m a woman and I’ve never had chest pains. Like most women I get a 'heavy' left arm when my mitral valve regurgitation becomes bothersome.

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

Sadly, while smoking is declining slightly in the west, vapong is increasing rapidly.

[@stephen227]

Well, this is ironic, no?

[@MrsPisaroni]

Not ironic at all. The lectures were first advertised on the Gresham list last year

[@olivere5497]

@@MrsPisaroni nah, its ironic.

[@bazsnell3178]

@@MrsPisaroni And the Transcript is dated as 2022 January

[@PigBig66]

So much on drugs. Great salesman, pity his understanding of the evidence is so out of date. Statins for goodness sake.

[@cnelms56]

As an undecided potential user of statins, could you possibly point me to a source of your opinion?

[@Biochemistry-Debunks-Corona]

​@@cnelms56, look for Moritz, Andreas

[@Biochemistry-Debunks-Corona]

​@@cnelms56, he published a short 📚 on ❤ disease and more

[@olivere5497]

I was disappointed when he attacked that estate agent and demanded a selfie with him. I expect better from public officals.

[@cheesball96]

Hilarious. Everybody is laughing. Well done!