14/04/2001
A pioneering project aims to screen 1,000 children in the Western Isles of Scotland to spot potentially fatal heart defects early. The programme, to be carried out by Cardiac Risk in the Young, will be the first attempt to identify heart defects in children who have shown no evidence of ill health. Hundreds of young people
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TRAGIC teenager Richard Allen died suddenly from a rare heart condition – but the tragedy saved his brother's life. Richard 16, collapsed at home from a massive heart attack. But tests showed that an undetected defect was also present in brother Stephen, 19. He was rushed to hospital to have a defribillator fitted inside his chest
A RARE heart condition has killed a teenager – but the tragedy has saved the life of his brother with the same illness. Richard Allan, 16, collapsed without warning because of the previously undetected disorder. The cause was put down to the little understood Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, used to describe apparently inexplicable fatalities. Then doctors
Following the death of 26-year-old runner Anna Loyley minutes after the 1998 Bath Half, UK Athletics, in conjunction with the National Sports Medicine Institute, established an expert panel to examine the issue of screening runners who take part in road races. The goal was to identify the heart disorders that cause Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS). SDS
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