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Chrisull
Chrisull
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3:31pm, 11 Oct 2018
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I've down St Pol de Leon/Morlaix half twice and also have had to have a certificate for both of those.

Saint - I assume the answer to your above question is private health care. I'm not supporting it, but it's the kind of thing an insurer would pick up the tab for. In the States my sister says she got "followed" around by her own personal assistant for route hospital checks, as insurance "had to look like it was doing something for the money". I can't say if they'd pick up all issues, but I'm guessing they'd pick up *some* issues, which therefore makes it worthwhile.
The_Saint
The_Saint
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Ben Goldacre did quite a bit on the value of screening/testing, the popular belief seems to be similar logic to having your car serviced regularly, apparently to use his phrase "I think you'll find that it's a bit more complicated than that"
Chrisull
Chrisull
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4:29pm, 11 Oct 2018
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Yeah I seem to remember that, and I know on prostrate screening it is actually proving counter-productive in many cases, they pick up "pre-cancerous" stuff, which the body's immune system might well deal with itself, and in dealing with it via an operation/drugs/radiation they actually cause more problems.

Still in my case, one of the lights on the car dashboard has come on so it seems sensible to get it checked out. One of the top lady runners (and also a nurse) in our club said she had an issue on an ECG, and never went back to get it followed up.
larkim
larkim
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4:34pm, 11 Oct 2018
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LOL - I just bought a bluetooth ODB2 connector for my car so I can switch off the warning light on the ECU and ignore the problem...
sallykate
sallykate
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4:34pm, 11 Oct 2018
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Delurking to say maybe take a look at the Cardiac Risk in the Young site https://www.c-r-y.org.uk/category/faq/; there will always be people with undiagnosed (and rare) conditions who really couldn't have known or done anything: regular runners who'd had no warning of anything.
paul the builder
paul the builder
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4:43pm, 11 Oct 2018
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Saint - is the car servicing analogy really a good one? I don't know what the equivalent 'false positive' would be there. Worst case is you've spent a bit more than you needed to on unnecessary screening (which *is* the bit of the analogy that is fair).

Not sure if LouLou reads here, but she'd have a unique(*) insight in to all this.

(*) may not be literally unique, but you know what I mean
larkim
larkim
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4:52pm, 11 Oct 2018
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This felt like a pithy summary of the situation I suppose (from that c-r-y website):-

"There is a relationship between sudden cardiac death and sport. However it is important to emphasise that sport is good for the heart. Sport reduces the risk of high blood pressure, it improves cholesterol levels and generally, it reduces the risk of someone dying from a cardiac problem. Indeed people who play sport on a regular basis live an average of six years more than people who don’t play any sport at all.
However, if an individual that plays sport harbours a condition that’s capable of causing sudden cardiac death – such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy or a blocked artery – then sport is three times more likely to kill that individual. So there’s a bit of an irony, sport promotes longevity of life and reduces the risk of death from a cardiac problem but increases the risk of sudden death in an individual who already has a cardiac condition.
The_Saint
The_Saint
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5:26pm, 11 Oct 2018
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The car servicing thing I had in mind is that being serviced regularly won't detect a component that goes from nothing abnormal detected to sudden, catastrophic failure.
The_Saint
The_Saint
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Sorry - hit return prematurely - whereas sensible stuff like oil changes are preventative, sadly the human body needs preventative stuff done every day by not choosing unhealthy behaviours
Daz Love
Daz Love
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6:03pm, 11 Oct 2018
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See this and then just opened my local paper to see this on the front page. Made me think.

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