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Bangalore, Sept.25

Cardiological Society of India, Karnataka Chapter in association with Rotary club has lunched a year-long awareness programme on prevention of heart ailments by organising a medical check-up camp at the Rotary club on World Heart Day on Sunday here. Dr. S. S. Ramesh, President Cardiological Society India, Karnataka Chapter, said, "To bring down the incidence of heart disease by year-end, we intend to screen 10,000 Rotarians across the state. Later, this service will be extended to other strata of society". Heart Disease, especially coronary artery disease, has become an epidemic. Ten per cent of the adult population in urban areas and five per cent of population in rural areas suffer from heart disease. Indians suffer from heart attack, a decade earlier than their western counterparts. What was of more concern was that each year the incidence of heart disease was increasing. Both World Health Organisation and hospital statistics in India indicate that in less than a decade, hospitalisations due to heart ailments had increased by 30 per cent and deaths due to coronary artery disease in the age group of 30 to 65 years had jumped 23 per cent.

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