3,500 free heart checks since 2007

MORE than 3,500 people with worrying heart symptoms or a family member with a genetic heart condition have been assessed for free by the Centre for Cardiac Risk in Younger Persons (CRYP) since 2007.

According to the latest CRYP report, more than 1,350 people were screened in the centre last year with 10% of these eventually diagnosed with a heart condition.

The age range of patients screened was from one to 74 years, with most aged between 14 and 35 years.