No extra risk to your heart (Image: Anton Badin/Plainpicture)
IT’S OK to fly even if you have serious heart problems, according to this week’s advice from the .
Its are much more upbeat than previous reports on air travel and heart disease, which warned of heart attacks and lung failure from deep-vein thrombosis – when blood clots form, blocking veins and arteries.
“The cabin environment doesn’t pose a significant risk to heart health,” says lead author David Smith at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. The key for those with a pre-existing heart condition, Smith says, is to make sure that it is fully…
