University works with national charity to offer potentially lifesaving heart screening to students and staff
12th January 2024
University of Gloucestershire is offering heart screening to its community of students and staff, and their family members, who may have an underlying heart condition which can often have no symptoms.
As part of its Stop the Heartbreak campaign, the University will hold a heart screening day at its Oxstalls Campus in Gloucester in collaboration with the national charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), which works to reduce the frequency of young sudden cardiac death (YSCD).
According to CRY, every week in the UK, at least 12 apparently fit and healthy young people aged 35 and under die from undiagnosed heart conditions.
On 24 January 2024, University students, staff and their family members aged between 14 and 34 will be able to undergo an electrocardiogram, or ECG, funded by Stop the Heartbreak and carried out by CRY’s cardiac physiologists and cardiology specialist doctors. You can find out more about this story on the University website.
Picture: A specialist from the national charity Cardiac Risk in the Young carrying out a consultation with a young person