WHO: Heart disease in Philippines worst in South-East Asia


MANILA, Dec 13 (Philippines Daily Inquirer/ANN): In the last 20 years, heart disease has remained the leading cause of death in the world and is still “killing more people than ever before,” the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in its 2019 Global Health Estimates, and the Philippines is the worst in South- East Asia (SEA).

One hundred twenty out of every 100,000 Filipinos died of ischemic, or coronary, heart disease in 2019, up from 103 per 100,000 population in 2015, the worst record among South-East Asian countries that listed the ailment as its top cause of death.

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