Parents of North Lincolnshire man who died from cardiac arrest urge for more heart screenings

The parents of a North Lincolnshire man who died after a sudden cardiac arrest are campaigning for more heart screenings for young people.

Nathan Bryan from Broughton was thirty-one when he died from sudden adult death syndrome in 2019.

Despite four members of his family being affected by heart-related conditions, Nathan’s mum Gill was told by doctors he would not need testing for similar conditions.

On the morning Nathan died, he texted his mum saying he was excited to see her later on that day. But that was the last thing she heard from him.

Gill said:

“The government need to provide more screenings so that these young people can be saved. Other countries are doing it, we need to.

“When we had our two days screening in January in Scunthorpe, they had a huge waiting list for young people to have a screening it was immense. It shouldn’t be left for grieving parents and charities to save the young people of the future.”

Gill has since met with the health minister where they agreed on looking into more clinical research around screening under 35’s .

The meeting covered the risks and benefits of screening, before a focus on the lack of data making it impossible for a sound decision on whether wider screening will be beneficial. It was accepted that current data on this is utterly outdated and inadequate.