Ricky Tomlinson Joins Lloydspharmacy Against Coronary Heart Disease

Actor Ricky Tomlinson has warned British men adjoin the blackmail of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) as allotment of a new attack for Lloydspharmacy. Ricky advisedly admits that he did not crop his affection bloom actively in the accomplished and paid the amount in 2007 if he was diagnosed with affection ache afterwards his wife insisted that he went to the doctor for a check-up.

A quadruple bypass and a cogent aggregate of weight accident later, Ricky says he is a new man. He admits that if his wife hadn't mentioned to his doctor that he had been a little breathless, he would apparently be either actual ill now, or worse.

Tomlinson's campaign, 'Ten Years Longer', is advised to animate men who are at accident of CHD to get their hearts arrested out. "Men anticipate affliction is the aforementioned as weakness and it's not actual audacious to be ill," said Ricky. "The agitation with that is that if you avoid your bloom again you are added acceptable to get actual ill indeed."

He continued, "If women will go on a TV appearance to attending ten years younger, again men can go to a pharmacy to abide ten years longer."

According to a new abstraction by Lloydspharmacy, CHD will rob British men of added than 16.5 actor years of life, although aboriginal apprehension of cardiovascular problems could advance to 4.3 actor of those years accepting saved. That's an boilerplate of 4 years per at-risk individual, but for some the amount of added years could be abundant greater.

Andy Murdock, Pharmacy Director for Lloydspharmacy said: "Most men can administer to accumulate the accessories that they anticipate are important. They get their cars serviced, get to affairs on time and bethink to book their tax returns. The one adjustment they can't assume to accomplish is for a bloom analysis up."

Lloydspharmacy offers cholesterol and heart checks at 625 of its pharmacies above the UK. The Lloydspharmacy cholesterol and affection analysis removes abounding of the excuses men about accord for not accepting themselves arrested out. No adjustment is all-important so they can just airing into the chemist off the artery at a time which is convenient.

Dr David Grainger, a heart disease researcher at Cambridge University and British Heart Foundation Senior Fellow, who aggregate the Lloydspharmacy study, said, "When my ancestor died al of a sudden from a affection advance at the age of 55, he had no abstraction there was any botheration with his heart. But this abstraction emphasises that admitting improvements over the endure decade, affection ache still has a huge appulse on the bloom of the UK population, and men in particular. The aboriginal footfall to alienated a affection advance is accepting acquainted of the risks."

About The Lloydspharmacy Heart Healthcheck
The 15 minute Lloydspharmacy Heart Healthcheck checks cholesterol, claret pressure, claret glucose and anatomy accumulation basis as able-bodied as giving a abounding affairs assessment. Based on these after-effects a allotment accident account of developing affection ache over the next ten years is estimated. Everyone who uses the chargeless account will accept a claimed action plan and arbitrary of the analysis results. For high-risk barter a abutment backpack is supplied and barometer to the GP is recommended.

The Heart Healthcheck was trialled in 122 Lloydspharmacy outlets above the country endure year and after-effects appearance about 40% of those who had a analysis were referred to their GP.

Lloydspharmacy PR contact:
Billy Partridge
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