A mother whose teenage son died of sudden cardiac death syndrome has urged young adults to make sure they get their heart checked.
Caroline Gard is a divisional representative for national charity CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) which last year started a new heart-screening clinic at Colchester General Hospital.
The first clinic of 2005 will be there on Saturday, January 22, and is open to anyone aged 14 to 35. The aim is to detect previously undiagnosed conditions.
Mrs Gard, 51, of Glebe Way, Frinton, whose son Andy, 17, died in 1997, said CRY believed many young deaths could be avoided if basic cardiac screening was more widely available.
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