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Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 April 2025

Debate

Electrocardiogram Screening

Contribution

My Lords, at the very effective seminar that was arranged, it was clear that the screening of high-performance athletes is the area where benefit has been found. I wonder whether the Minister agrees, following on from the very perceptive comment from the noble Lord, Lord Winston, that the complexities interplaying behind sudden cardiac death in the young must be better understood. AI may come forward with a way of screening without this enormous number of false positives, because the danger of false positives is that young people avoid sport and exercise and then develop worse health outcomes in the long term, rather than actually finding ways of coping better for those who do need an intervention to sort out their cardiac abnormality.

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