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‘Greater heart risk’ among deprived
6 September 2010
The most deprived in Northern Ireland are twice as likely to die from heart disease as the most affluent, it was revealed. Poor diet, smoking and lack of exercise were all behind the increased death toll, according to a new plan from the Belfast Health Trust… inequality imposed its own strains on top of poor lifestyles. “If you are less well off than someone else and live in a very unequal society it does impact on you psychologically and it does have a physical effect including on your health in terms of heart disease or cancer,”…
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