Countdown's Rachel Riley shares health alert after heart-breaking death of loved one

Rachel Riley, 39, is urging radical to beryllium clued up connected their bodies, aft losing a person who showed nary evident signs of sick health

Rachel Riley is calling for greater consciousness astir basal wellness knowledge, pursuing the tragic nonaccomplishment of a loved one. The Countdown presenter's person was lone 34 erstwhile helium died from an unnoticed bosom condition, contempt being 'super fit' and showing nary evident signs of sick health.

In airy of this, Rachel, 39, emphasised the value of knowing 'what is going connected underneath the skin' and taking complaint of your wellness from an aboriginal property to mitigate risks. The TV mathematician's alert comes arsenic Bupa Health Clinics revealed an alarming wellness cognition spread successful the UK.

The information showed that fractional of UK adults are unaware of their ain weight, portion a staggering 3 quarters don't cognize their blood pressure reading. Yet, much than fractional (57%) expressed interest astir the anticipation of having oregon processing a circumstantial wellness condition.

Speaking exclusively with the Express, Rachel said: "Some of the astir important numbers successful our lives are our wellness measures, and I realised I wasn't paying capable attraction to those. Having children has made maine deliberation otherwise astir my semipermanent health, and aft losing a person to an undetected bosom information astatine a young age, I understood that we can't presume anything."

The mum-of-two, who is joined to erstwhile Strictly Come Dancing prima Pasha Kovalev, shared that her person was 'as acceptable arsenic tin be', which near him oblivious to his underlying wellness issue. "I deliberation erstwhile you're young, you conscionable don't deliberation astir it [health] arsenic much," Rachel continued.

"But yeah, I mean we'll ne'er cognize [what could've been] if helium would've gone [for a check]. There's a spot called CRY that specifically checks [cardiac health] for young people, different than that, you conscionable don't cognize wherever to spell to get an MOT connected your body.

"So, you're conscionable benignant of guessing and hoping for the best. But, if there's thing you tin bash that tin springiness you a spot of help, particularly erstwhile you've got kids and there's radical relying connected you, it's bully to bash it."

In enactment of Bupa's Knowledge Is Power initiative, Rachel revealed however her ain gut problems and Davina McCall's caller wellness ordeal influenced her determination to question a broad wellness appraisal for herself. Last year, Davina was astonished to larn she had a uncommon benign tumour known arsenic a 'colloid cyst' during a random wellness examination.

Despite its 14mm-wide size, she appeared to person nary symptoms earlier its discovery. Since then, she's had it removed and is urging over-40s to spell for their escaped wellness checks, offered by the NHS.

Amidst this, Rachel went on: "I've had gut issues since I was young and it comes and goes, but I cognize with those benignant of issues particularly, prevention is amended than immoderate cure oregon medicine afterwards. I conscionable wanted to get due proposal connected that, particularly these days there's truthful overmuch online, you don't cognize if you tin spot it, with societal media and influencers.

"It's conscionable hard to cognize wherever to spell to for bully advice, truthful to person idiosyncratic for conscionable immoderate proposal they tin springiness me, it's a spot much reassuring."

Dr John Field, Associate Clinical Director astatine Bupa Health Clinics said: "Empowering individuals with cognition is the archetypal measurement towards a healthier and happier nation. By knowing and afloat knowing cardinal wellness markers, radical tin statesman to marque much informed decisions and instrumentality proactive steps to amended their carnal and intelligence wellbeing."