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Massive APPARENT reduction in excess deaths in 2023 as UK ONS change how they calculate excess deaths. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/causesofdeath/articles/estimatingexcessdeathsintheukmethodologychanges/latest OECD, UK https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=104676 Excess deaths in 2022, 52,514 (9.26%) OECD, UK, weeks 1 – 44, 2023 Excess deaths, 49,389 (9.44%) https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-for-health-improvement-and-disparities/about/statistics https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiYmUwNmFhMjYtNGZhYS00NDk2LWFlMTAtOTg0OGNhNmFiNGM0IiwidCI6ImVlNGUxNDk5LTRhMzUtNGIyZS1hZDQ3LTVmM2NmOWRlODY2NiIsImMiOjh9 Early heart disease deaths rise to 14-year high https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/news-from-the-bhf/news-archive/2024/january/early-heart-disease-deaths-rise-to-14-year-high Over 100,000 excess deaths involving cardiovascular conditions in England since February 2020 Heart and circulatory diseases cause around a quarter of all deaths in England – over 140,000 deaths each year or one death every four minutes. In 2022 Over 39,000 people in England died prematurely of cardiovascular conditions, heart attacks, coronary heart disease and stroke, an average of 750 people each week. It is the highest annual total since 2008.

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