Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, Feb 25: Due to recent inconsistency across borders followed by mass migration of the people, cases of heart diseases have increased manifold in this border belt. Dr. Sushil Sharma HoD Cardiology, GMC Jammu and his team have decided to provide medical assistance to the people at their door steps and held a day long camp at Krail Manhasan in Bishnah. Over 250 patients were examined during the camp and free medicines were also distributed as per requirements.
While interacting with the patients, Dr Sushil stated that Cardiovascular diseases have now become the leading cause of mortality in India. “A quarter of all mortality is attributable to CVD. Ischemic heart disease and stroke are the predominant causes and are responsible for greater than 80% of CVD deaths. The global burden of disease study estimate of age-standardized CVD death rate of 272 per lac population in India is higher than the global average of 235 per lac population,” he said.
Dr Sushil asserted that when it comes to health impact, characteristics of both people and places matter. Since stress, hypertension and lipid abnormalities were very high among the patients examined in the camp, He maintained that it is a matter of common observance that the commotion along the border didn’t let the residents breathe sigh of relief and repeated violation of ceasefire further push them to a situation which is full of stress, fear and unpredictable sufferings. “Such stressful life situations contribute to heart diseases and even affect behaviours and factors that increase heart disease risk like high blood pressure, cholesterol levels, smoking, physical inactivity and overeating. Since there is positive correlation between stress and heart diseases there is need to follow proper strategies to cope up stressful conditions by doing daily exercise to help you feel good and further advised to have balanced diet, limit alcohol intake, avoid nicotine and caffeine, get enough sleep and maintain a positive attitude. Having too much stress for too long is certainly bad for heart,” he advised.
Other, who were instrumental in this endeavor, included Dr. Dhaneshwar Kapoor and Dr Akhil Gupta Paramedics and volunteers, who were part of the team, included Arvind Sharma, Vikas Kumar, Kamal Sharma, Raghav Rajput, Vikas Sabharwal, Harvinder Singh, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Akshay Kumar, Ankush Kohli and Raj Kumar.
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