Rates of cardiovascular disease vary by level of deprivation. At national level, those of any age in the most deprived group are around one and half times more likely to die of CHD than those in the least deprived group.

Local authority areas within each UK country have been classified as having high or low deprivation rates and high or low CHD mortality rates, by splitting all local authorities at the median measure independently for each country.

For men and women of all ages in England there is a clear gradient from South to North between areas of low mortality and low deprivation through to areas of high mortality and high deprivation. This pattern is reversed in Scotland and Wales where areas of low mortality and low deprivation are in the North and areas of high deprivation and high mortality are in the South and West. In Northern Ireland high mortality, high deprivation areas are in the west of the country.