Sue Wayne, regional manager of the Stroke Association, listens to the heartbeat of seven-year-old Emma Buggins, who had a stroke three years ago when she was four. They were at Canary Wharf to publicise the start of Stroke Awareness Week, a joint initiative between the Association and the British Heart Foundation. The Foundation said that because one in six children say they don't have time to do physical activities, it was seeking to highlight the fact that unless children become more active now the number of strokes and heart attacks will increase in the next 30 to 40 years when they are adults.
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