Politics Home – 26th November 2014
CEO of Cardiac Risk in the Young, Alison Cox, says medics need to ‘wake up’ to the fact that 80% of teen heart deaths have no warning symptoms.
A teenage rugby player collapses on the pitch in front of his teammates and supporters. Fit and sporty, he is the person least likely to be thought to be at risk from cardiac death.
Yet every week in the UK, 12 apparently fit and healthy young people die suddenly from a previously undiagnosed heart condition.
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