From Scottish heart disease statistics Hospital activity for the year ending 31 March 2026 and deaths for the year ending 31 December 2025 published two days ago:

The rate at which new cases of coronary heart disease occur (the incidence) has fallen by 15% over the last decade (2016/17 to 2025/26).

In 2025, there were 6,531 deaths in Scotland where coronary heart disease (CHD) was the underlying cause. The age-sex standardised mortality rate for coronary heart disease has continued to decline over the last decade, falling by 17% from 139.2 deaths per 100,000 population in 2016 to 116.2 per 100,000 in 2025.

https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/scottish-heart-disease-statistics/scottish-heart-disease-statistics-hospital-activity-for-the-year-ending-31-march-2026-and-deaths-for-the-year-ending-31-december-2025/

In 2007, in the last days of Labour, there were 9 343 deaths in Scotland where coronary heart disease (CHD) was the underlying cause. https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/121346943/Scotland_s_Population_2007.pdf

This means that there were 30% fewer such deaths in 2025 than in 2007, despite there now being around 300 000, 36% more people over 65 in Scotland.