Rochdale Online, 18th July 2019
Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) is among the charities and projects to which MP Tony Lloyd offers his support in his ‘Letter from Parliament’. He writes :
“In Parliament, I attended an event organised by the charity ‘Cardiac Risk in the Young’ (CRY) to lend my support to their ongoing campaign for a national strategy for the prevention of young sudden cardiac death. It often surprises people that every week, 12 apparently fit and healthy, young (aged 35 and under) people in the UK die suddenly from an undiagnosed heart defect. In 80% of these cases, there will have been no signs or symptoms until it is too late, which is why CRY believes screening is so vitally important… The government must create a national strategy to prevent the hundreds of deaths of young people each year from these undiagnosed cardiac conditions.”
