The ‘Your Heart Matters’ bus is offering a face-to-face five minute stethoscope check to detect the heart murmur that is the hallmark of valve disease
Medics are offering free heart health checks in Blackpool to help spot potentially deadly conditions.
However, once treated patients can return to a good quality of life, largely free of symptoms. It is only during an in-person appointment that a GP can have that quick listen to the chest of an older person and then refer the patient for echocardiogram. "When a condition is picked up, we then provide the public with letters for their GPs so they can be referred to their local cardiology departments for further investigation and treatment. A face-to-face stethoscope examination is the most straightforward method to detect key characteristic associated with valve disease – a heart murmur.
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