Kind-hearted guests took to the HQS Wellington this week on London’s Victoria Embankment for a special charity dinner to raise money for heart and stroke charity CORDA. Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra, royal patron of CORDA, set the night off by greeting guests such as Margaret Mountford, Jane Asher and Sir Peter Blake to name a few.
CORDA, which raises funds to support high quality clinical research into the prevention of heart disease and stroke using non-surgical methods, funded the world’s first cardiovascular magnetic resonance scanner at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. It is now 33 years since CORDA unveiled the country’s very first scanner, which has enabled the most powerful three-dimensional pictures of the body to be taken without using radiation. This has facilitated CORDA to make major medical advances in the understanding of the causes and development of heart disease and stroke.
Research using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging can be used to give early diagnosis of coronary heart disease and help identify patients at risk, including adolescents and young people. With this early detection of the disease it can be prevented, stopped or reversed.
It is hoped that the money raised at CORDA’s charity dinner this year will make possible further high quality clinical research into the prevention of heart disease and stroke, a major cause of death in the UK. In fact, heart disease and strokes are two of the three main causes of death in the UK along with cancer.
Margaret Mountford, renowned for her role on The Apprentice and board member for CORDA, said: “Heart disease and strokes are a killer disease affecting thousands of people every year, young and old. However, thanks to medical research advances, like CORDA’s scanner, we as a country can strive to cut the number of people affected by heart disease and stroke by early detection. As two of the top three main causes of death in the UK, I hope the public will support CORDA to help fund more ground-breaking research.”
To find out more about CORDA call (0207) 349 8686.
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