Cardiovascular diseases
...and United Kingdom as the people living there, live different lifestyles and have different diets. Lifestyle By modern day society, we are referring to the modern type countries, eg countries that are well developed. We won’t be referring to really poor countries. First of all the overall age of the population has grown and there are more elderly in our society. This is because technology and science has increased dramatically in our society, especially in the field of Medicine. Thus people are living longer. Cardiovascular diseases are most likely to affect people over the age of 60. We may also say that a lot of people living in modern day society live an unfit life. That is because technology has reduced the amount of physical exercise in our lives, for example people used to ride/walk to work, now they drive a car. In our lifestyle many people also smoke, this greatly increases the chance of developing cardiovascular diseases by 5 times. Many people also consume alcohol in excess; this may lead the weakening of the heart muscle. There is still a high incidence of cardiovascular ...