 "What makes young hearts so vulnerable?")
Bollywood has a long history of heart attacks. Actor Sidharth Shukla passed away due to a heart attack at 40 on September 2022. Heart disease incidences among youngsters are rising at a rapid rate in the country for the last few years. Looking good with all the bulked up muscles and going to the gym regularly when your body and mind is tired doesn’t mean you are healthy.
In the same year (2022), we lost one of Bollywood’s finest singers Krishnakumar Kunnat, popularly known as KK when he compained of chest pain right after performing in a concert in Nazrul Manch, Kolkata on May 31. He mistook it to be just an acidity problem. Though he was immediately rushed to the hospital, he couldn’t be saved.
Now, Vikas Sethi alos died of heart attack. According to his wife Jhanvi Sethi, they were in Nashik to attend a family function. “After we reached my mother’s house in Nashik, he had vomiting and loose motions. He didn’t want to go to the hospital, so we asked the doctor to come home. When I went to wake him up at around 6 am on Sunday, he was no more. The doctor there told us he passed away last night in his sleep due to cardiac arrest,” she told the top news agency.
What makes young hearts so vulnerable ?
According to The World Economic Forum, 50 percent of people who die at a young age die of diabetes and heart disease. Dr Narayan Gadkar, cardiologist from Mumbai once said to Firstpost, “Heart disease is not limited to older people anymore. Now, even youngsters are getting heart attacks. Hence, heart disease is becoming common among youngsters nowadays. Currently, various factors can induce heart problems in youngsters. A sedentary lifestyle, family history, unmanaged diabetes, hypertension or high levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, and stress, are seen in a majority of people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. Did you know? Just staying in shape, building muscles, and going to the gym does not mean one is healthy and disease-free. There are many reasons like lifestyle disorders, lack or more of physical activity, and stressful life, that lead to heart attacks. However, following an unhealthy lifestyle inclusive of lack of sleep, alcohol consumption, smoking, consuming excess supplements, and over-exercising can take a toll on the heart.”
Lifestyle Changes to Prevent a Heart Attack
According to American Heart Association, the following are the steps we can follow to prevent heart attack:
*Stop smoking.
*Choose good nutrition. A healthy diet is one of the best weapons you have to fight heart disease.
*Lower high blood cholesterol.
*Lower high blood pressure.
*Be physically active.
*Aim for a healthy weight.
*Manage diabetes.
*Get enough sleep.
(With added inputs from agencies)