Coronary Artery Disease Cad

Indians are prone to developing CAD, when in fact, the conventional risk factors for CAD like hypertension, high cholesterol, obesity and smoking are lower in incidence in Indians than westerners.

CAD continues to be the most common cause of death in the industrialized world and is ever-increasing in the developing countries. The huge burden of disease in terms of mortality, morbidity and socioeconomic hardship, remains a challenge.

You can undo some heart diseases, but probably not all, of the damage. This World Heart Day, know the changes you need to make in your lifestyle to undo some heart diseases.

Stressing the need to adopt precautionary strategies in the fight against heart diseases, President Pranab Mukherjee today said that the most common cause leading to Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) and heart attacks was wrong lifestyle choices.

Heart disease has affected the young Indian population 10 years ahead of their Western counterparts - particularly over the last three decades - owing to sedentary lifestyles and lack of exercise, the nations top cardiologists have warned.

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) has spiked by 300 per cent among Indians in the past three decades, with 2-6 per cent of the affected people living in rural India and 4-12 per cent in urban India.

Women suffering from angina are most likely to develop severe coronary artery disease (CAD) than men.

People experiencing sleep apnoea, or brief episodes when breathing stops, are often treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) to help them breathe properly during the night. While rather cumbersome and inconvenient, the treatment is worth sticking to, especially for people who have heart disease.

Indians are prone to developing CAD, when in fact, the conventional risk factors for CAD like hypertension, high cholesterol, obesity and smoking are lower in incidence in Indians than westerners.

CAD continues to be the most common cause of death in the industrialized world and is ever-increasing in the developing countries. The huge burden of disease in terms of mortality, morbidity and socioeconomic hardship, remains a challenge.

You can undo some heart diseases, but probably not all, of the damage. This World Heart Day, know the changes you need to make in your lifestyle to undo some heart diseases.

Stressing the need to adopt precautionary strategies in the fight against heart diseases, President Pranab Mukherjee today said that the most common cause leading to Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) and heart attacks was wrong lifestyle choices.

Heart disease has affected the young Indian population 10 years ahead of their Western counterparts - particularly over the last three decades - owing to sedentary lifestyles and lack of exercise, the nations top cardiologists have warned.

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) has spiked by 300 per cent among Indians in the past three decades, with 2-6 per cent of the affected people living in rural India and 4-12 per cent in urban India.

Women suffering from angina are most likely to develop severe coronary artery disease (CAD) than men.

People experiencing sleep apnoea, or brief episodes when breathing stops, are often treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) to help them breathe properly during the night. While rather cumbersome and inconvenient, the treatment is worth sticking to, especially for people who have heart disease.