The decline in Heart Disease: Dr Malik comments on SKY News.

Dr Malik appeared on SKY News this morning to comment on a recently published paper in the British Medical Journal. The paper states that heart attack death rates have halved over the past decade, with the rate of occurance of heart attacks falling by 30%. This is clearly great news…. Watch the video to find out why!

Here is the link to the SKY news coverage online: https://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16156753

Here is the link to the original BMJ paper: https://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.d8059

Posted on 26 January 2012

Author: LCC

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