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Toddlers 'should get heart risk test'

A new study is recommending that children should be screened early to stop them having heart attacks young. Inherited heart disease is where high cholesterol levels are passed down through generations - but it is often not picked up.
Victoria discusses the issue with Amanda and John Wingett, whose daughter Rianna died from a heart attack,
Professor David Wald, who recommends early heart screening, Georgina Dixon, who lives with inherited heart disease, and Jules Payne from Heart UK.

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