Early cardiac deaths are a growing concern in today's world. Dr. Abhijit Joshi, HOD and Consultant Cardiologist, highlights the risk ...

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Early Cardiac Deaths | Dr. Abhijit Joshi | Manipal Hospital Baner

I am Dr abijit zosi I'm a head of Department of Cardiology at manipal hospital Baner I would like to wish you all a very happy World Heart Day motto of 2024 World Heart Day is to get your heart in action what does that mean we have heard many news regarding death of artist at early age death of marathon runners even at early age or lot of heart attacks occurring at younger age groups why this is happening so we need to introspect ourselves there are many factors that are playing important role in formation of blockages inside the artery which are ultimately responsible for heart attacks so the whole idea of this 2024 World hard day campaign is to make the people aware about their risk factors about the risk of heart diseases understand the symptoms and motivate them to get themselves checked and give them a proper goal so that the things will happen on a larger basis on a larger scale and the things can start from my home my surroundings my office my city my state my country and then entire world so that is the whole idea of this 2024 World hard day campaign so what I feel that we should understand what are the symptoms of heart issues so anybody who is active could walk 4 to 5 km without any problems or could climb three or four flights of stairs without any problem in recently now the things have changed three or 2 or 3 km brings shortness of breath a chest heaviness uneasiness or undue fatigue or climbing even one flight of stair brings the patient to breathlessness so change of symptoms or change these newer onset of symptoms is something which should one should look for who are the one who are at higher risk so those patients especially those who are diabetic those who are hypertensive those who are abnormal cholesterol or those who are at those who have a family history related to heart problems so some uncle has heart attack Auntie had a bypass surgery elder brother had anoplasty these are the very highrisk category group and the main aim of this campaign is to bring them to the medical services so that they can get themselves checked and what what test we should do very simple get your blood sugar test get your blood test of cholesterol lipid profile get your hba1c and simple test like stress test and Eco cardiogram which will give us a overall idea of our heart health and if required some patients may require a higher test like CT coronary angiography or proper coronary angiography to visualize the blockages treatment of heart diseases should be done on priority if somebody who has higher risk and somebody who is having symptoms of say chest pain in the center of the chest sweating uneasiness or some choking sensation patient the person is feeling uneasy Restless feel like acidity not getting relief from the anets one should reach to the hospital which is well equipped with intensive care facility and cardiac catheterization laboratory because reaching in time saves the life and saves your heart muscle as we all know that heart muscle does not have regeneration power so muscle lost is lost forever so somebody who takes long time to reach to the hospital or reach to the Medical Services they lose their big part of the heart muscle and then ultimately the person or the patient becomes sick the patient has complications the patient has to get hospitalized recurrently for breathlessness So to avoid all that when somebody has symptoms which are likely to be heart heart related please come to the hospital which is well equipped get yourself admitted and under observation and follow the advice of doctors preventive checkups are very very important to avoid such catastrophes preventive checkups include routine cholesterol sugars ECG yearly Eco cardiogram and treadmill test which can pick up the early signs of heart issues and we can the doctors can treat them in time so that the possible catastroph can be avoided so my take on this is please understand your symptoms please try to have good lifestyle please be active please avoid deep fried and fatty food or avoid this fast food thing try to eat healthy diet be active walk every every day for at least 45 minutes to 1 hour or do some cardio exercises like swimming cycling and please take care of your health by doing periodical checkups if you are diabetic hypertensive or high cholesterol patient control your risk factors aggressively with the help of your doctor and that can help you uh to have a healthy lifestyle or healthy life in the future thank you very much

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