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 British Cardiovascular Society.
Its guidelines 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…
