The Mail – 30th May 2017 The family of a schoolgirl who died from an undiagnosed heart condition has suffered a further tragedy after the sudden death of the teen’s younger sister. Read more
The Sun – 22nd May 2017 A vivacious young woman has been remembered as having “everything to live for” after she was struck down by Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. Read more
Congratulations and a huge thank you to all the CRY runners who took part in the Virgin Money London Marathon 2017 on Sunday 23rd April. We’re extremely proud of everyone and grateful for being so many people’s chosen charity. 107 runners supported CRY this year, running the 26.2 mile course through the centre of London. Running
We would like to say a huge thank you and congratulations to the 20 CRY runners that took part in the Brighton Marathon on Sunday 9th April 2017, for their kind support and amazing fundraising efforts! CRY was very lucky this year to have volunteer Spencer Hannon on the day carrying out sports massages after such
The London Landmarks Half Marathon is a closed road, central London run and is the only half marathon to go through both the City of London and City of Westminster.
Leading charity reaches out to young people using social media as a platform to provide essential support and specialist information At the end of Heart Month 2017, a powerful but pragmatic new YouTube channel has been launched by the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) to help support the growing numbers of young people who
A ground-breaking paper published simultaneously in two leading international heart journals [20 February 2017] casts fresh light on the current debate relating to the accuracy and cost-efficiency of the ECG as a screening tool to identify athletes with potential life threatening heart conditions – also showing promise for the future of a screening programme for all
The Huffington Post – 13th February 2017 Recently, (Wednesday 1 February, 2016 – the start of the annual awareness campaign, Heart Month) the British Heart Foundation issued a statement suggesting “around 620,000 people in the UK are carrying a faulty gene that puts them at high risk of developing coronary heart disease or sudden death.” Read
PoliticsHome – 2nd February 2017 PoliticsHome speaks to Cardiac Risk in the Young’s CEO, Dr Steven Cox, about why sudden death syndrome in the young is not the ‘tiny issue’ the National Screening Committee has made it out to be. Read more
Dr Steven Cox, Chief Executive of the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) comments; “Statistics and ‘guestimates’ predicting the genetic risk of people dying suddenly from coronary heart disease OR sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS) in young people are two very different things. Whilst the impact of any sudden death is utterly devastating, it is