You begin having a heart attack at home. You don’t know it yet. You do nothing, unsure of your symptoms and unwilling to take up NHS time or to risk catching Covid-19. Your future rapidly looks bleak.
Across the UK, people are doing this, unseen, in their houses. Coronary heart disease, a leading cause of death in the UK, is going untreated.
Graph by Michael Goodier
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