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Increasing numbers of people in the Gulf will develop heart disease unless they adopt healthier diets and lifestyles, doctors have warned. The region already has high rates of cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks, strokes and hypertension. Heart disease is the Gulf's biggest killer. Sheikh Mohammed bin Saqr Al Qassimi, said the condition was responsible for up to 51 per cent of deaths in the UAE, said it was very difficult to establish exactly how many people in the Gulf had heart disease as there were no epidemiological studies. Diabetes and smoking are both risk factors, and these are prevalent in the region. We need these studies," Dr Bazargani said. "There are samples but no figures as accurate as we would like them to be." A six-month study in 2007 of more than 6,000 patients by the Gulf. The Federal National Council recently approved a draft law banning smoking in public places and forbidding tobacco advertising