CAD Raises Alarm In Urban India

EHM News Bureau - Mumbai

Cardio Artery Diseases (CAD) are an established cause of high mortality world over and have also raised concerns in India. There is an urgent need to curb its level of incidence through diagnostic and prognostic measures of interventional cardiology supported by established and credible pharmaceutical companies and health authorities in India, said Dr Marco Roff,i a well-known name in the field of interventional cardiology, while addressing the delegates at the Fourth Annual Conference of CAD in Mumbai last month.

The three-day conference marked a start in Mumbai recently under the auspices of the newly-formed Indian Society of Coronary Artery Disease, in collaboration with the World Heart Federation (WHF).

According to statistics reflected by the World Health Organisation, CAD would be the main cause of deaths by 2020, in developing countries with an alarming toll affecting almost three-quarters of the population world over. Currently, the rapidly rising statistics of deaths caused due CAD, has posed an important public health problem in both developed and developing countries like India.

According to the cardiac researchers, the genetic make-up of Indians is such that they are prone to CAD. Comparative statistics show that the incidence of CAD has increased rapidly in urban India at the rate of 12.6 per cent as compared to 4.6 per cent in developed countries like Europe. Further, the average age of the first heart attack among Indian men is five years earlier than among European men, indicating a much earlier onset of the disease, making CAD a bigger problem for Indians.

The convention held at Mumbai attracted eminent international delegates to speak on this subject. Amongst many distinguished doctors like Dr AB Mehta, Dr Marco Roffi.