Dr Justin Varney

Director of Public Health
at Birmingham City Council

Discussing cardiovascular disease and:

What small steps we can take in our daily lives improve heart health
Signs to looks out for
Useful tools available on the Healthy Hearts website to support changes.

Follow the link below to learn more about lifestyle choices

Birmingham and Solihull Healthy Hearts | Lifestyle choices (bsolhealthyhearts.nhs.uk)

Together we can
beat heart disease

Health services, local authorities, charities and other partners across Birmingham and Solihull's initiative brings our local GPs and hospital specialists together to help prevent people having a heart attack or stroke. We are working together to prevent heart attacks and strokes.

The best thing we can all do to stay well is to adopt healthy behaviours in our everyday lives.

We can also do more to prevent, find and manage conditions that increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes, such as;

Atrial Fibrillation (a type of abnormal heart rhythm)
High blood pressure
High cholesterol
Diabetes

In Birmingham and Solihull there are 168,344 people affected by high blood pressure (hypertension) which is a leading cause of heart disease and stroke.

sed heart failure across Birmingham and Solihull. Of these there are 3,223 patients with heart failure due to the left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD).

There are 38,360 people with coronary heart disease across Birmingham and Solihull.

There are 20,100 people with diagnosed atrial fibrillation across Birmingham and Solihull.

There are 20,339 people with a history of stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) across Birmingham and Solihull.

168,344people with diagnosed hypertension across Birmingham and Solihull

24,155 people are diagnosed atrial fibrillation across Birmingham and Solihull.

23,331people have experienced a stroke or mini-stroke

Our vision for the people of Birmingham and Solihull...

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Objectives

We aim to help people to keep their hearts happy and lower their chances of having a heart attack or stroke.

To do this, the Birmingham and Solihull's Healthy Hearts website will share local, practical information on:

how to live healthily and stay well
Information to help support conditions that increase the chances of having a heart attack or stroke, such as;
- atrial fibrillation
- high blood pressure
- high cholesterol
how and where you can get your numbers checked
how you can help to manage and control these conditions to lower your CVD risk

People falling into a broken heart

The challenge

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the main cause of death in England. Heart and circulatory diseases cause more than a quarter of all deaths in the UK, that’s nearly 170,000 deaths each year – an average of 460 deaths each day or one every three minutes in the UK.

Conditions that increase the risk of CVD, such as high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes are very common across Birmingham and Solihull, but many people don't know they are affected as there may be no symptoms.

We need to do more to prevent, detect and control the conditions that can lead to CVD.

RESULTS