Channel NewsAsiaProf Tan Huay Cheem, Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiology, National University Heart Centre Singapore, and Dr Rajesh Dharmaraj, Head of Division and Senior Consultant, Vascular Surgery, Department of Cardio Thoracic Vascular Surgery, National University Heart Centre Singapore, shared some of the possible reasons for sudden deaths. These include heart attack, myocarditis, arrhythmias, stroke, aortic dissection, and a ruptured aneurysm of the artery, among other reasons.
Channel NewsAsia also highlighted that male smokers above 65 with coronary artery disease can email National University Heart Centre Singapore to express their interest to participate in Singapore's first large-scale aortic screening programme. The National University Heart Centre Singapore team is on the lookout for 1,000 participants to help them gain insights into the necessity for aortic screening for this population.
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