by Sallie Crawley | Mar 30, 2021 | Podcast, Relationships, Family, Carers & Intimacy, Stories & Inspiration, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Ray Bishop was born with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome. This did not affect his quality of life until after he had developed coronary heart disease. This was after many misdiagnoses. He was lucky that as by this time, cardiac ablation could be carried out on him for...
by Sallie Crawley | Jun 18, 2017 | Healthy Heart Living & Risk Reduction, Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
A silent killer, an invisible disease! High blood pressure is silent as there are no obvious symptoms and often you aren’t aware that you have it as there are no particular symptoms. It isn’t until damage starts to happen that it is noticed, although luckily nowadays...
by Sallie Crawley | May 8, 2017 | Symptoms, Monitoring & Knowing When to Get Help, Understanding Your Heart & Diagnosis
Did you know that women generally fare worse than men after experiencing a heart attack? One reason is that it can be difficult to identify the warning symptoms of a cardiac event when they do hit. According to the British Heart Foundation heart attacks kill more than...