article_snippet: Professor Kevin Fenton, director of health and wellbeing at Public Health England, said: 'Too many people are dying prematurely from preventable conditions and there is clear evidence that factors like smoking and high blood pressure play a major role in this. '
article_snippet: Cardiovascular disease kills more people across the world than any other illness.
article_snippet: The World Health Organisation estimate 17.5 million people were killed by cardiovascular disease - of the heart and circulatory system - in 2012.
article_snippet: That is three deaths in every 10.
article_snippet: Of those, 7.4 million died of coronary heart disease, and another 6.7 million died from stroke.
article_snippet: In coronary heart disease is responsible for more than a quarter of all deaths, or around 73,000 deaths each year - an average of 200 people each day or one every seven minutes.
article_snippet: The total cost of premature death, lost productivity, hospital treatment and prescriptions is estimated at £19 billion every year.
article_snippet: In 2013, more than 18,000 people died prematurely from coronary heart disease.