Heart disease will kill 4m Europeans in 12 months

OVER the next year more than four million Europeans will die from heart disease — and most of it could be prevented, an Irish cardiologist has told the European Parliament.

The solution to what is the top killer in the EU however cannot come from doctors, Professor Ian Graham, a cardiologist at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital in Dublin, told the MEPs.

Instead politicians, educators and health professionals must be involved to reduce the causes of cardiovascular deaths: smoking, obesity, blood pressure and cholesterol.