Medical center offers vascular screening

Schneck Medical Center will offer a vascular screening next month.

The screening will take place from 8 am. to 2 p.m. Feb. 20 at the Women’s Diagnostic Center at Schneck. You must have a scheduled appointment to participate.

An estimated 20 to 30 million Americans are at risk for various vascular diseases, including stroke, peripheral arterial disease, carotid artery disease and aortic aneurysms. According to research, vascular disease outside the heart causes almost as much death and disability as heart disease and more than any cancer, the medical center reported.

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