No Exercise, Alcohol & Bad Diet Raise Risk Of Heart Attack

New Delhi: Better education and socioeconomic status have had little impact on the health profile of Delhi’s young, the results of a year-long survey conducted on young adults by city cardiologists to assess risk factors for heart disease vis-à-vis smoking, alcohol consumption, obesity, hypertension and diabetes seem to indicate.

India's rising heart problems could be the result of increasing waistlines and dipping levels of good cholesterol, says a new study.

The good cholesterol, or HDL, is a wax-like substance that picks up excess cholesterol from blood and deposits it in the liver for disposal. Indians have a huge deficit with HDL readings of 28.8, says the ongoing study being conducted by the American College of Cardiology that draws up treatment norms followed across the world.

A staggering 80% of Lucknowites in their early 40s face high risk of developing heart disease against the national average of 70%, according to a study conducted in 12 cities over a period of three

Referring to the report of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Japanese researchers and a number of physicians told that people of Bangladesh are living in the risks of non-communicable diseases su

Diabetes may consume $22 billion, or more than half of China’s annual health budget, if all those afflicted with the condition get routine, state-funded care.

Prevalence Rate Higher Among Men

Lucknow: Diabetes is disease of the rich in the city, says a study conducted endocrinology department of Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences. The study found that 21.2% of the subjects had diabetes. Institute professor E Bhatia and his colleagues conducted the study over a period of several years.

It suggests implementation of health, nutrition and development programmes

A study by the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, on the death of tribal infants in Attappady noted that “high maternal under-nutrition of 48 per cent of adult women leading to chronic energy deficiency” resulted in the death of a large number of infants.

Kochi: Thyroid cases in men and women are on the rise and the cause is not iodine deficiency but apparently environmental pesticides -- if a study on the subject is any indication to go by.