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Cardiovascular Tests
Heart Checks
Looking after your heart is vital to the quality of your life.
If you don't suffer from any symptoms, you exercise regularly, you are not overweight, and don't smoke, it is unlikely that you have cardiovalcular disease and an occasional check-up with your GP should be all you need. However if you have a family history of heart disease, you are overweight, you smoke, or do little exercise then you should ask your GP for an annual heart check up.
Your GP can check your heart by listening to your heart, measuring your blood pressure and possibly sending you for an electrocardiogram (ECG) and a blood test (for cholesterol levels), a chest X-ray, a CT Scan or a coronary angiography (or coronary arteriography) which is an X-ray test used to produce pictures of the blood vessels or chambers of your heart.
For more information on your heart please click on Related Links below.
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