Select Committee on Health Minutes of Evidence

Appendix 1

Table 11

VASCULAR DISEASES CAUSED IN PART BY SMOKING

Ischaemic heart disease	*Aortic aneurysm
Myocardial degeneration	*Peripheral vascular disease
Hypertension (fatal)	*Buerger's disease
Arteriosclerosis	*Pulmonary heart disease
Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Cerebral thrombosis
Cerebral haemorrhage

  *Risk increased five or more times

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Prepared 14 January 2000