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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Heart disease & stroke
Nighar Arif: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Nighar Arif
Doctor and specialist in women's health
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Oct 2026Nov 2026to date
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press citations on 1 topic since 19 Oct 2026 · last quoted 19 Oct 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Nighar Arif: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Doctor and specialist in women's health
- Quoted on
- Heart disease & stroke
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 19 Oct 2026
04 The signal · where Nighar Arif sits on heart disease & stroke
Ranked 67= of 100 voices quoted in the press on heart disease & stroke, level with 33 others on 3 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1
Professor Bryan WilliamsSector leaderChief Scientific and Medical Officer, British Heart Foundation (BHF)51 - 2Dr Francesco Lo MonacoAcademicCardiologist, founder of the National Longevity Clinic32
- 3
Dr Sonya Babu-NarayanClinicianClinical Director, British Heart Foundation20 - 67=Charis Bridger-StaatzAcademicSenior research fellow in population health, UCL centre for longitudinal studies3
- 67=Laura GimenoAcademicCo-author of the study3
- 67=Nighar ArifClinicianDoctor and specialist in women's health3
- 67=Rouchelle Sriranjan RothwellAcademicCardiologist and British Heart Foundation-funded researcher3
- 67=Dr Jaqui LindridgeAcademicChief paramedic officer, South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb)3
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05 On the record · press
What Nighar Arif has said
By outlet · linked articles
- aol.co.uk1
- getsurrey.co.uk1
- mirror.co.uk1
Where Nighar Arif has been quoted
- 01'I'm a doctor and heart attack symptoms in women are often dangerously overlooked' - AOLaol.co.uk · 19 Oct 2026
- 02TV doctor warns heart attack symptoms in women 'too often' written offgetsurrey.co.uk · 19 Oct 2026
- 035 symptoms of heart attacks in women 'too often' written off as anxietymirror.co.uk · 19 Oct 2026
Verbatim
“Young women are twice as likely as men their age to die in the year after a heart attack. Not because their hearts are weaker, because their symptoms were overlooked, dismissed, delayed.”
“Here's the truth we don't say loudly enough. Young women are twice as likely as men their age to die in the year after a heart attack.”
“You're too anxious - that's what too many women hear while their heart is literally struggling for oxygen.”
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