REVEALED: How one in five have hidden 'widow-maker' condition that DOUBLES heart-attack risk. Doctors rarely test for it and millions are in danger... Here's everything you need to know

Daily Mail Health · 16 August 2026 at 16:03

REVEALED: How one in five have hidden 'widow-maker' condition that DOUBLES heart-attack risk. Doctors rarely test for it and millions are in danger... Here's everything you need to know

It is a silent genetic condition affecting millions of people, dramatically increasing the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

Yet vanishingly few have ever heard of it.

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