A new study has been able to establish that a 35% decrease is seen in the rate of casualty from coronary disease in Ontario from 1994 to 2005, practically half of which can be stated to be due to the healthier lifestyle that some have been following.

Mortality rate from heart ailment are low significantly in Canada’s largest county and specialists opine that it has a lot to be concerned with better prevention and treatment techniques.

Researchers from the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto and numerous other partners, which include the University of Western Ontario, the University of Liverpool and the Canadian Heart Research Centre, found it translated to almost 7,585 fewer fatalities in 2005.

Dr. Harindra Wijeysundera, a Toronto Cardiologist and the study's leader stated that rising cases of diabetes and obesity are counteracting those improvements.

Researchers have seen that diabetes accounts for a 6% increase in instances of cardiac arrest over the time period, whereas obesity accounts for 2% increase.

He said that the real figure would somehow be different than what we see and in broader sense, instances of diabetes and obesity have gone up and BP and cholesterol cases have plunged to a significant level.