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Quit smoking, stop heart problems: Cardiologists
Wed, Jun 25 09:31 PM
Stay away from smoking and fast food, advocate eminent cardiologsits to youths as the number of young people suffering from heart problems are on the increase.
The number young people coming with heart ailments for treatment was gradually increasing but no statistics are available,” they said.
It was important to have a national statistics to work on proper policies and programmes to make a healthy society, they said citing the example of American Collelge of Cardiologists’ programme on diet restriction and compulsory exercises for youth.
“Today, it is a scary situation as we get young people in late twenties and thirtees with heart problems,” eminent cardiologist Dr Samuel Mathew told media on Wednesday.
“Since we do not have the statistics on young adults, the civic bodies should prepare epidemiological data so that the country can have proper statistics to work on various policies and programmes,” he said.
Angioplasty is a common intervention choice to avoid bypass surgery and “we try to avoid surgery on a young person and even angioplasty,” he said.
Mathew demonstrated today two difficult cases of 100 per cent blockages in patients (71-year-old man and 47-year-old woman) with low heart function for the benefit of 1,500 cardiologists who were attending the international cardiology meet at Bangkok.
Other doctors who participated in the angioplasty demosntration were Jamshed Dalal, Anil Sharma, Nitin Gokhale and Ajit Menon.
Add comment June 30, 2008
Smoking Causes Impotence
Men – need a new reason to quit smoking? Sex. Smoking causes impotence -”Smoking, because it causes blood vessel constriction, is a very big cause of erectile dysfunction,” said Dr. Larry Lipshultz, chief of male reproductive medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
The report on smoking and impotence, which appeared on Health Day News, found that men who smoke a pack a day are 40% more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction. “Smoking delivers nicotine and other vasoconstrictors that close down the blood vessels” of the penis, explained Dr. Jack Mydlo, chairman of urology at Temple University School of Medicine and Hospital in Philadelphia.
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Add comment December 31, 2007
