Read Update 9 online here. The CRY Update is the charity’s newsletter, reporting on CRY news and events, cardiac screenings, breaking developments in medical research and CRY supporters’ fundraising over the preceding months.
Update Magazine Issue 9
Adrian Hawkins
CRY Update Magazine 36
Read Update 36 online here The CRY Update is the charity’s newsletter, published three times a year, reporting on CRY news and events, cardiac screenings, breaking developments in medical research and CRY supporters’ fundraising over the preceding months.
Cardiac Related Sudden Deaths in Sport
Cormac McAnallen (24) Irish Gaelic football player who died from an undetected heart condition Patrick Dinsmore (16) Gaelic footballer who died on the pitch due to an undetected heart condition. Richard Butcher (29) English professional football player died at his home in Swinton. His death had been caused by the heart condition cardiac arrhythmia.
A sad affair of the heart
Ryan was playing on his computer when the telephone rang. He died immediately from shock at just 19 years old. Lisa, 27, was found dead in her bed after her alarm clock went off. And 12-year-old Alexander died while playing cricket at school. All three were apparently healthy and yet they died with little or no warning. Around the country,
Legislation will help to fight coronary disease
Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) is a national charity raising awareness of potentially-genetic cardiac abnormalities in young people. The charity also offers bereavement support and promotes and subsidises screening for those at risk. Surprisingly, the high-risk group includes athletes, illustrated by the deaths of 25-year-old David Longhurst, a York City footballer who died during a
Why Foe was the latest in a long line of needless fatalities
Any death in sport is one too many. But when the lives of athletes are being cut short from a cause that could be avoided it is tragedy in its most real sense. Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS), the result of heart abnormalities, kills eight young people a week in the UK, most of them seemingly fit
