Firdaus Khan
This was stated by Dr KK Aggarwal, President Heart Care Foundation of India. Heart Care Foundation of India released the following guidelines for the public:
- Any chest pain which can be pinpointed by a finger is not a cardiac pain. Any chest pain which lasts less than 30 seconds is not a cardiac pain.
- 3D Echocardiography at the onset of chest pain can help early detection of heart attack.
- ECG can be normal in the first 6 hours of acute heart attack.
- Chewing water soluble Aspirin 300 mg at the onset of chest pain can reduce chances of death by 20%.
- Heart attacks normally occur during early hours of the day.
- Sudden death due to heart attack occurs maximally in the first hour of the onset of chest pain.
- Primary angioplasty can dissolve clot of the heart attack causing artery and prevent any damage by heart attack.
- Primary angioplasty can also be done if the clot dissolving therapy has not worked.
- Sudden death after heart attack is reversible provided it is tackled within 5 minutes. It, therefore, becomes important not to leave the heart attack patients in the first hour and not to transfer them to another hospital without a medical attendant.
- 25 lakh people die in
- For every 10 heart attacks, four are women.
- Heart attack in women is more lethal than in men.
- Heart attack amongst smokers is more complicated than in non-smokers.
- Heart attack in patients with diabetes may come without chest pain.
- It is possible to live a normal life after heart attack.
- People can enjoy normal sex life after recovering from heart attack or angioplasty.
- If a person can climb two flights of stairs or walk 1 km without discomfort, he or she is fit to have normal sexual activity with the partner.
- Extramarital sex is more dangerous to the heart as it is in unfamiliar circumstances, places, situations, time and with much younger partner and associated with performance anxiety.
- Viagra like drugs should not be taken without cardiologist clearance and Viagra like drugs should never be taken with drugs called Nitrates.
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