Cardiac Risk in the Young

Over in the sports section, two sports collided for an epic fundraiser.

Lochaber Kaminak Women and Fort William Women's Football Club took to the field for a 90-minute football match to raise money for the Ebbs Memorial Fund and Cardiac Risk in the Young.

The fund was set up in August this year in memory of Ebony Maurice, who suffered a fatal cardiac arrest aged just 17 while attending a concert with her mum.

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It may be the first step to sort of increasing, um, awareness and access in the non-league game, uh, to, to, um, to, to screening.

According to Cardiac Risk in the Young, which is a, a charity, 12 people under the age of 35, or 35 and under, die every week in the UK from undiagnosed heart conditions.

Uh, and there are no prior symptoms in 80% of tho- of cases of young sudden cardiac death.

Um, and this is what Rahul told me.