Every 39 seconds, someone loses their life due to chest attacks; expert
“Heart diseases are the single largest killer in the world. Every 39 seconds, someone loses their life due to chest attacks, and we can well imagine the situation here in India. In current times, we are hearing about a lot of young lives lost after COVID,”
City Air News
Jul 3, 2023 06:57
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Chandigarh, July 3: “Heart diseases are the single largest killer in the world. Every 39 seconds, someone loses their life due to chest attacks, and we can well imagine the situation here in India. In current times, we are hearing about a lot of young lives lost after COVID,”
Dr. Virender Sarwal, director cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at Ivy Hospital, Mohali said that two things are very important. One is that we should have preventive check-ups, and if there is a problem, we should get it treated in time with a durable procedure.
He further said that heart surgery, if done with due care, is established to be the most durable procedure for any heart disease.
Heart surgery is all about care, empathy, and close monitoring for a successful and durable outcome, he maintained.
Wherever there is detection of a heart disease, keep in mind that one has to choose the best and most durable treatment so that it gives you a good quality of life in the future for your professional and personal needs. This routine should not be disturbed again with repeated admissions to the hospital, said Dr. Sarwal.
Heart surgery, if done with due care, is established to be the most durable procedure for any heart disease. Wherever there is detection of a heart disease, keep in mind that one has to choose the best and most durable treatment so that it gives you a good quality of life in the future for your professional and personal needs, he opined.
Dr. Sarwal who is a Member Society of Thoracic Surgeons, USA said that in a recent presentation at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons meeting in San Diego USA, West Virginia State University presented a paper reviving 1,00,000 patients with two arms of treatment i.e. stenting and bypass surgery. The findings were clear: patients who opt for CABG are less likely to die from the disease and less likely to save subsequent surgery or heart attacks. A 3-year re-admission rate for surgery patients with a second heart attack was much longer, and the same was true for the second, which had a 60% reduction in death at 3 years , informed Dr Sarwal who is also Member Heart Valve Society, USA.
