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Heart attacks normally mean huge critical illness ratings, Julie Hopkins looks into new and existing medical research of this condition

Considering Critical Illness and heart attacks together throws up two fundamental questions: Do any heart attack survivors have a sufficiently good risk profile allowing them to be offered critical illness cover? Also if the industry can offer some heart attack survivor’s life insurance – then why not critical illness cover? Why consider Heart Attack at all? Heart attack is one of the most common causes of claim on critical illness policies and it is also more common than most would expect in the general population. In 2006 the British Heart Foundation estimated there were 1.4 million ...

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