Health & Wellbeing: Cardiac arrest

In the UK, 100,000 sudden cardiac deaths occur each year, which is more than breast cancer, lung cancer and AIDs combined. Globally, sudden cardiac death causes 15-20 percent of deaths worldwide.

Heart arrhythmias occur when the electrical impulses that coordinate your heartbeats don't work properly, causing your heart to beat too fast, too slow or irregularly. Heart arrhythmias may feel like a fluttering or racing heart and may be harmless.

Our Health & Wellbeing chairperson Marie Dillon, wishes to direct every London GAA member to further reading on the above extract from Irish in Britain.

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