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Pulse take part in Heart Month 2025

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Here at Pulse Insurance this month, we are taking part in National Heart Month including:

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National Heart Month aims to increase awareness of cardiovascular diseases and encourage people to have their heart health checked.  As we all know, the heart plays a vital role in keeping us alive by pumping blood around the body.

Why Pulse Insurance Limited are taking part in National Heart Month?

  • Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the UK and therefore it couldn’t be more important to get your heart checked.

There are two easy measures you can get to check your basic heart health: Blood pressure and Cholesterol

Blood Pressure
Ideal: 90/60mmHg and 120/80mmHg
High: 140/90mmHg or higher
Low: 90/60mmHg or lower

Blood pressure levels can be checked at home with a UK approved home blood pressure monitor or by a medical professional. NHS have some further information on how to check your blood pressure here

Cholesterol
Total Cholesterol: Less than 5mmol/L
HDL (Good Cholesterol): More than 1mmol/L
Non HDL (Bad Cholesterol): Less than 4mmol/L

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Cholesterol levels can be checked with a blood test. For understanding more about cholesterol levels, additional information can be found at British Heart Foundation

There are a variety of factors that can negatively impact the function of the heart and increase your chance of developing cardiovascular disease including:

  • Family history
  • Age
  • Obesity
  • Diabetes
  • High blood pressure
  • Poor cholesterol
  • Smoking

Fun fact: Laughing is good for your heart! It reduces stress and gives a boost to your immune system.

Get ready for a few heartwarming handpicked jokes to help share some smiles and make you giggle:

  • What’s a hearts favourite type of exercise? Cardio
  • What kind of music do hearts love? Anything with a good beat
  • What is a heart’s favourite TV programme? Heartbeat
  • We told a joke or two and they heart-ily laughed!

Ok, we promise that’s the last one …for this article!

On a more serious note, one of the best things you can do for your heart health is to exercise regularly. Exercise helps to lower blood pressure, maintain a healthy weight, improve cholesterol values and reduce inflammation across the body.

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Getting Pulse Life Cover including a history of congenital heart disease

At Pulse Insurance we believe that your medical history shouldn’t be a barrier to accessing life insurance. Over the last 6 months, we have sourced personal or business life insurance cover for those who have a history of congenital heart disease. This includes Brugada syndrome, Tetralogy of Fallot, Heart valve defects, coarctation of the aorta and cardiac events that have required the insertion of an ICD.

When reviewing this type of medical history, the main areas of risk we assess are stability of the conditions, compliance with treatment, the nature and severity of complications and symptoms.

Pulse recently were able to provide life cover for a lady who was planning to start a family and identified the need for valuable family protection life cover. She had been declined by the standard life market as she had been diagnosed with Brugada syndrome and had a precautionary ICD. Pulse were able to provide this valuable cover at a reasonable cost.

Pulse are here to help provide the valuable protection that you need. For more information, or to request a quotation, please contact our Life Team or call 01280 841430 Option 4.

Getting life insurance with cystic fibrosis

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This week is Cystic Fibrosis awareness from 17th to 23rd June 2024 and you may see a blast of yellow that people are wearing on Fri 21st June for charities like Cystic Fibrosis Trust!

Cystic fibrosis is a life threatening genetic disease that affects the lungs and makes it hard to breathe. There is over 10,800 people living with it is the UK.

The way cystic fibrosis is managed has changed significantly in the last 10 years. As a result many individuals who suffer from this ailment now have better general health and a better prognosis.

Even with this development, individuals with the cystic fibrosis condition still struggle to get terms for life insurance in the mainstream insurance market.

For those with cystic fibrosis, Pulse Insurance Limited as Insurance specialists have sourced personal or business life insurance cover for these individuals.

Pulse Insurance have arranged life insurance cover for a 25 year old lady who has cystic fibrosis and had complications of diabetes although was well controlled and compliant with her treatment.

Pulse have also been able to provide cover for a 31 year old gentleman with cystic fibrosis with a good pulmonary function, compliant and with no complications.

One of the primary risk factors when we review this kind of medical history are condition’s stability, treatment compliance and the kind of severity of any consequences or symptoms.

Pulse are help to provide the valuable protection that you need. For more information or to request a quotation, please contact life@pulse-insurance.co.uk or call us on 01280 841430.

 

 

Please note that any reference to examples are correct at time of publishing and may not reflect current circumstances of insurance cover available.