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80% of farmers have four or more risk factors for heart disease

The Irish Heart Foundation are at the NPC to talk about heart health- and they Ivan through his paces.

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19.00 17 Sep 2019


80% of farmers have four or more risk factors for heart disease


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19.00 17 Sep 2019


Marese Damery, Health Check Manager at Irish Heart Foundation joined Ivan at the Ploughing today to discuss the risks of heart disease, how it can impact everyone from farmers to office workers.

She discussed IHF's latest campaign to get people up out of their seats during the working day, and she even took Ivan's blood pressure and discussed the risk of cardiovascular disease with him.


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