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High street heart health checks

Lloyds Pharmacy has launched a campaign with actor Ricky Tomlinson to get men to check their heart health

The campaign, called Ten Years Longer is designed to encourage men who are at risk of CHD to get their hearts checked out.

Actor Ricky Tomlinson freely admits that he did not take his heart health seriously in the past and paid the price last year, when he was diagnosed with heart disease after his wife insisted that he went to the doctor for a check up.

A quadruple bypass and a significant amount of weight loss later, Ricky says he is a new man. He admits that if his wife hadn’t mentioned to his doctor that he had been a little breathless, he would probably be either very ill now, or worse.

“Men think illness is the same as weakness and it’s not very manly to be ill,” said Ricky. “The trouble with that is that if you ignore your health then you are more likely to get very ill indeed!

“If women will go on a TV show to look ten years younger, then men can go to a pharmacy to live ten years longer!

Andy Murdock, Pharmacy Director for Lloyds Pharmacy, said: “Most men can manage to keep the appointments that they think are important. They get their cars serviced, get to meetings on time and remember to file their tax returns. The one appointment they can’t seem to make is for a health check up.”

Lloyds Pharmacy offers a cholesterol and heart check at 625 of its pharmacies across the UK.

The Lloydspharmacy cholesterol and heart check removes many of the excuses men typically give for not getting themselves checked out. No appointment is necessary so they can just walk in off the street at a time which is convenient.

The check, which takes place in a private consultation area, only takes 15 minutes and you get an instant report on your risk of developing heart disease over the next ten years and practical advice about what to do next.

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