Centre identifies cardiac problems in young

CARDIAC problems were identified in one in 10 young people with a family history of heart disease who attended a specialist treatment centre last year.

They were assessed at the Centre for Cardiovascular risk in Younger Persons at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin that opened just more than a year ago.

Cardiac disease in young people is mostly due to inherited heart disease and it is conservatively estimated that more than 10,000 people in Ireland carry genes for inherited heart disease.