Hundreds of thousands at risk of sudden death from silent heart conditions

New figures from the British Heart Foundation suggest that around 620,000 people in the UK are carrying a faulty gene that puts them at high risk sudden death. The overall figure could be much higher due to underdiagnosis and undiscovered faulty genes which can increase a person’s risk of these potentially fatal conditions. These conditions can affect people of any age and each child of someone with an inherited heart condition have a 50 per cent chance of inheriting it. For many families, the first sign there’s a problem is when someone dies suddenly from a cardiac arrest or heart