44% - Proportion of Bangladeshi men smoke, compared with 27 % of the general population.

African Caribbean men are three times more likely to develop prostate cancer than white men.

The prevalence of stroke among African Caribbean and South Asian men is 70 per cent higher than the average.

People of South Asian origin are 50 per cent more likely to die prematurely from coronary heart disease than the general population.

Infant mortality in England and Wales for children born to mothers from Pakistan is double the average.