Modify lifestyle, exercise daily for healthy heart, say experts

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, September 29

World Heart Day was observed at various hospitals in the city today, where doctors advised lifestyle modifications for a healthy heart and stressed on adopting exercise in daily routine.

This year’s theme ‘Share the Power’ will encourage people across the world to take care of their hearts. It is observed to draw people’s attention on the devastating cardiovascular diseases.

Hero DMC Heart Institute

The day was observed at HDHI, where Medical Superintendent and Professor of Cardiology Dr Bishav Mohan gave an informative lecture to a wide gathering of patients and their attendants sitting in the reception area of the hospital.

He emphasised that heart diseases have become quite common among the Indian population and besides aged people, heart diseases affect both young children and adults today. The main cause for the increasing number of cardiac related diseases in India is improper lifestyle, he said.

“Today, a large segment of young population remains busy on computers and smartphones and get very less time to keep themselves active in physical activity. The best way to keep heart healthy is to do a 30-minute brisk walk for five days a week.” He also advised people to get rid of old-age myth that a child can have any quantity of food intake. He specifically said that childhood obesity was very dangerous and one should take care that a child doesn’t become fat or obese in his tender age.

SPS Hospital

The day was also observed at SPS Hospital. Dr Navdeep Singh, interventional paediatrician and foetal cardiologist at SPS Hospital said almost 2 lakh children are born every year with various congenital heart diseases in the country and up to 50 per cent of these babies are critical, requiring urgent intervention in the first year itself. Children’s heart diseases account for 10 per cent of all infant mortality in India. A common misconception is that these children either do not survive or even if they do, they are likely to live with a major disability for the rest of their lives. On the contrary, with current modalities of treatment, a majority of these children have a good survival rate and an excellent quality of life.

Free cardiac check-up, ECG at Sibia Medical Centre

Meanwhile, Sibia Medical Centre in connection with World Heart Day is conducting an event to create awareness about cardiac diseases to prevent heart disease and help diagnose coronary artery disease in time. It is offering a three-day cardiac awareness programme with free cardiac check-up and electrocardiogram (ECG) and is offering special concession for Treadmill Stress Test (TMT) and non-invasive heart flow mapping with cardiovascular cartography (CCG). CCG test is painless and carried out in just a few minutes without being admitted to the hospital. People can walk in and walk out and do their routine work after the tests.