2.  Ischaemic heart disease reduces blood supply to the heart muscles and is one of the major cardiovascular diseases.

3.  Risk factors of Ischaenic heart disease  Increase in age  Smoking cigarettes  Cholesterol level  Diabetes  High blood pressure  It is more common in men

4.  The best way to prevent Ischaemic heart disease is to maintain a healthy diet to lower blood pressure level and cholesterol level. Smokers are also encouraged to stop smoking has it also is a risk factor to this disease.

5.  Prevalence - number of Australians with condition in 2004-05  637,900  Incidence - number of events in 40-90 year olds in 2005  47,730  Hospitalization in 2006-07  162,328  Deaths in 2006  22,983

6.  There are no major burdens for this disease it is simply maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle. This disease solely depends on what you do and put in your body. E.g. smoking and high cholesterol foods and sugars.

7.  Older people age groups have the higher risk to having this disease than younger people due to their weakness of the heart and complications of maintaining there cholesterols level and blood pressure level.

8.  http://www.aihw.gov.au/cvd/coronary_diseas e.cfm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischaemic_heart _disease http://www.aihw.gov.au/cvd/coronary_diseas e.cfm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischaemic_heart _disease