‘60 percent of heart disease cases to be in India’
July 17th, 2010 - 5:04 pm ICT by IANSMumbai, July 17 (IANS) India will account for 60 percent of heart disease cases worldwide over the next few years, according to Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan who Saturday said lifestyle diseases were affecting people’s lives.
Lifestyle diseases like cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and diabetes are silently creating havoc, the governor said at the Bombay Hospital after presenting the ‘2nd Priyamvada Devi Birla Oration Award’ to New York-based interventional cardiologist Samin Sharma.
He also called for “an institutional response to tackle these modern diseases through awareness and medical preparedness”.
“Considering the rising incidence of heart and lifestyle diseases in India, it is imperative for the planners to acknowledge cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and lifestyle diseases as major public health problems. This will enable the government to devise structural response to tackle the diseases,” said Sankaranarayanan.
Chairman of the Bombay Hospital Trust, Bharat Kumar Taparia, cardiologist B.K. Goyal and other eminent people were present on the occasion.
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