6% of young Indian suffer from heart disease

GREATER KAILASH, India - Dec. 10, 2013 - PRLog -- Mean Median age of first heart attack in Indians: 53 years. 5-10% of heart attacks occur in Indian men and women younger than 40 years

New Delhi: 10th December  2013: According to the Global Burden of Disease Study, the developing countries contributed 3.5 million of the 6.2 million global deaths from CAD in 1990. oronary artery disease (CAD) occurs when the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle harden and narrow.

The prevalence of CAD in India has more than doubled in the past two decades, said Padmashri and Dr B C Roy National Awardee Dr KK Aggarwal, President Heart Care Foundation of India

India topped the world with 1,531,534 cardiovascular disease-related deaths in 2002, and based on WHO report, 2009, CAD currently occupies the first place in cause of death.

It is estimated that 9.2 million productive years of life were lost in India in 2000, with an expected increase to 17.9 million years in 2030.

Salient features of the CAD epidemic in India:

Incidence of CAD in young Indians is about 12-16%, which is higher than any other ethnic group

Age-standardized estimates for Disability-adjusted life lost due to CAD per 1,000 population in India are three times higher than in developed countries

About 5-10% of heart attacks occur in Indian men and women younger than 40 years

Median age of first heart attack in Indians is 53 years

1,55,88,000 DALYs (WHO, 2009).

About HCFI : The only National Not for profit NGO, on whose mega community health education events, Govt. of India has released two National commemorative stamps and one cancellation stamp, and who has conducted one to one training on” Hands only CPR” of 77157 people since 1st November 2012.

The CPR 10 Mantra is – “within 10 minutes of death, earlier the better; at least for the next 10 minutes, longer the better; compress the centre of the chest of the dead person continuously and effectively with a speed of 10x10 i.e. 100 per minute.”

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