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Croi has come a long way since it had that funding barometer sign outside the hospital, where passers-by could see just how much money it had to raise in order to give West of Ireland people a fair shot at surviving heart disease. Prior to Croi, if you had a dodgy ticker, you had to get on bone-rattling buses and cross the country in order to have your lifesaving surgery. Your chances of survival were reduced if you lived in the west. Back then too, the trauma of open heart surgery was so much more than it is today. Now, thanks to great leaps in technological advancement, bypasses and other invasive heart surgeries are becoming common and incredibly more lifesaving.

September is National Heart Month, and to mark the event the Irish Heart Foundation is holding a national blood pressure roadshow offering free blood pressure checks to community groups, the public, and Traveller organisations including the Galway Traveller Movement.

A new group is being currently formed to fundraise for stroke services in Mayo.

A new group is being currently formed to fundraise for stroke services in Mayo.

A Galway-based medical device company has announced that it has successfully secured funding of €5.2 million which will not only go a long way in improving treatment for stroke patients but will also result in the creation of up to 25 new jobs over the next three years.

This week, Ailish Houlihan, Croí nurse lead, Mayo Action on Heart Disease and Stroke programme encourages you to know your risk factors for heart disease and stroke.

According to the national charity fighting heart disease and stroke, the latest CSO figures showed that out of 92 stroke-related deaths in Mayo, 63 women died compared to 29 men during 2010.

A heart and stroke awareness day will take place in Nestor’s Supervalu, Oranmore on Friday, May 11.

Erina MacSweeney BSc (Hon) Dip CNM MIANT will offer customers of Matt O’Flaherty Chemists advice on cardiovascular problems including angina and high cholesterol today (Thursday) and Friday. Ms MacSweeney will offer cardiovascular screenings using the new B Pro device in Matt O’Flaherty Pharmacy, William Street, on both days.

More than 10,000 people in Ireland acquire a brain injury during an accident, blow to the head, a stroke, or an aneurism annually. A Brain Injury Peer Support Group meets in Castlebar every third Monday in each month.