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Despite tremendous improvements in our understanding of the underlying process of cardiovascular disease (CVD) if you have a heart attack there is still a 30% chance you won’t survive. Professor Avijit Lahiri says

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Prof Lahiri of the Wellington Hospital who said: “Patients with chest pain are referred for initial tests and then sent for an angiogram which involves injecting dye into the veins and then taking a series of x-rays to find narrowing.”

So what exactly is the problem with the usual heart screen?

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Dual CT Infinity Scanning leading UK Cardiologist, Professor Lahiri says: “We have seen many of these types of machine subsequently fail during clinical validation.

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Prof Lahiri’s article – Chest Pain – Cardiac or not? gets straight to the point. Are these chest pains as a result of something wrong with my heart, or worse still, do I have silent disease?

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Intriguing data published in November 2009 suggests that “stress” is an important factor in the development of silent heart disease. Prof Lahiri

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Prof Lahiri says: “Chest pains are often the first telltale signs of CVD, however, in many instances the differential diagnosis of chest pain is elusive, leading to a large number of ‘false’ diagnosis”.

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Chest pain can be be warning signs of an imminent heart attack. The quality of cardiac screening varies widely

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