Amid rising Sudden deaths/Heart attacks in Valley, DAK Sounds ALERT

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Advises sleuth of preventive measures

January, 13th Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) in a communique has expressed serious concern over the rising deaths due to sudden heart attacks in Kashmir valley.

Lately we are witnessing many such deaths especially sincepast few months in which more than 50 people have lost their lives.Majority of these type of deaths have occurred in the young and manyhave died on the way and could not reach even to the hospital.

DAK president, Dr Suhail Naik said,” increase number of these deathsamong young generation is really a matter of concern for everyone ofus in medical community and general masses. Precious lives need to besaved from these sudden cardiac events”.

Dr Fayaz Bhat,a noted Physician specialist and internist,is also a spokesperson of DAK expressed his serious concerns about thisconsistent increase in the cases of deaths due to sudden heart attacks. He said,”It demands immediate attention so that many lives at riskcan be saved by timely awareness programmes , preventive anddiagnostic interventions.As a matter of past experience we arewitnessing that the mean age for heart attacks has decreased by adecade or more especially in developing countries. The major reasonbehind such heart attacks is the blockages caused in the arteries ofthe heart, thus obstructing the regular flow of blood, thereby leadingto sudden cardiac arrest. Though all the instances of heart attacksthat have been recurring in the younger population are not primarilydue to the blockages in the heart, therefore other psychiatric oremotional factors might be more prevalent than we think”.

Dr Bhat further added that, “Previously elderly patients or peopleabove fifty years of age used to get heart attacks especially theones with multiple risk factors like diabetes, hypertension , obesityand dyslipidemia but now we are seeing that one third of heart attackpatients are young which is really a matter of concern. Excessive smokingespecially in young people living with stressful life and depressionbecause of psychosocial reasons or financial problems and familydisputes has markedly contributed in these type of deaths. Obesity also plays a major role,Sedentary lifestyle with intake of high energy foods rich in badcholesterol makes situation more worse . In addition to this risingdrug addiction of substances like heroin, amphetamines and marijuanaamong our youth is one the important contributing factor for youngheart attacks and sudden deaths”.

“Besides this young people including athletes with family history ofcardiac ailments like premature coronary artery diseases andcardiomyopathies like HCM are also at risk” Dr Bhat further said.

Preventive measures which are needed include :

1.life style modification and complete cessation of smoking.

  1. Refraining from any drug or substance abuse .
  2. Reducing salt intake if your blood pressure is on higher side.
  3. Reducing weight if one is obese or overweight with regular exercise.
  4. Encouraging intake of healthy foods with plenty of fruits andvegetables especially green leafy.
  5. Reducing intake of oils and non-vegetarians foods especially richin saturated fats.
  6. Avoid unnecessary exposure to cold during winters especially inearly morning hours .
  7. Those with family history of cardiac disease or with history ofsudden death in family should consult Doctors for proper evaluation.

General Secretary DAK, Dr Owais H Dar further said that, “ the numberof patients with central obesity and fatty liver disease hasdrastically gone up in Kashmir after Covid-19 lockdown as it led tothe sedentary life styles as people were not able to leave their homesand couldn’t do regular exercises thereby further aggravating theproblem.

DAK advised a slew of measures which need to be implemented startingfrom establishment of Dedicated cardiac care centers (CCU’s) which isneed of the hour at every district hospital and in new medicalcolleges with augmentation in terms of modern diagnostic modalities like echocardiography machines , TMT and Holter. Staff should be fullytrained not only to do timely thrombolysis with better thrombolytic drugs but facilities for temporary pacing must also be available before referring a patient to tertiary care hospitalhospital.

DAK futher urges Financial Commissioner Health and Medical EducationDepartment. Shri Atal Dullo to constitute an expert

Committeeconsisting of cardiologists and related experts so that causes ofthese increased number of sudden deaths and Heart attacks can beascertained and preventive measures taken there of.

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