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Table 3 American Heart Association 12 point screening procedure.

Personal medical history
1. Exertional chest pain/discomfort
2. Syncope/near syncope
3. Excessive unexplained exertional dyspnoea or fatigue
4. Prior recognition of a heart murmur
5. Elevated blood pressure
 
Family medical history
6. Premature death related to cardiovascular disease
7. Disability from cardiovascular disease at age <50 years
8. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, Marfan syndrome, arrhythmias, channelopathy (eg, long QT)
 
Physical examination
9. Heart murmur
10. Femoral vs radial pulses to exclude aortic coarctation
11. Physical stigmata of Marfan syndrome
12. Brachial artery blood pressure