On Thursday 22nd February a debate was held in the House of Commons chamber on ‘Heart and Circulatory Diseases: Premature Deaths‘.
The debate was led by Dean Russell, Conservative MP for Watford, who
spoke eloquently about having a heart attack last August at the age of
47. He talked about the importance not only of immediate access to
emergency medical care, but also about the rehab and lifestyle changes
required. He also discussed the psychological impact including initial
loss of confidence.
Mr. Russell mentioned the decline in cardiac
deaths over the last six decades, from the 1960s to 2019, but he did
not mention the increase since 2021. He also rightly mentioned
multifactorial aetiology including obesity and smoking and our more
sedentary lifestyles. He did not mention whether he had received any DNA
or mRNA vaccines and no-one was impertinent enough to ask him. He ended
his speech with a plea for action...<<<
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