A urine test that can predict heart attacks and strokes long before they happen should be offered to millions of Britons, according to experts.
The check, called an albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR) test and which costs just £6, looks for the early signs of kidney damage.
Growing evidence shows that weakened kidneys are one of the leading causes of deadly heart complications, yet the NHS routinely fails to test at-risk patients, meaning that millions of people are living with undiagnosed disease.
Worse still, experts say the blood test currently used by GPs to pick up kidney disease misses a significant number of patients who
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