Sedentary lifestyle and growing stress leading cause of heart attack among youth: Dr Rajneesh Kapoor

Dr Rajneesh Kapoor of Medanta shares case studies on structural heart intervention with medical fraternity

The growing incidence of heart disease among youth is an area of concern, said Dr Rajneesh Kapoor, Senior Director Interventional Cardiology at Medanta in Gurugram addressing the IMA Chandigarh and Physician Forum Chandigarh at the CME last night.

Dr Rajneesh Kapoor shared four case studies of patients suffering from serious heart ailment who could be treated with new technology of “structural heart disease interventions” at Medanta.

Dr Rajneesh who is a heart transplant expert, shared his concern over the growing cases of heart disease amongst youngsters, which, he said was resulting from not only sedentary lifestyle, bad eating habits, but more significantly, because of the sleep deprivation.

Sharing his study of 104 patients under 35 years,  at Medanta, Dr Kapoor found 67 percent of them were having less than 6 hours of sleep, and were also stressed out
because of competitive work environment leading to increased stress.

He advised that they should learn to take care of the stress, get minimum six hours of god sleep, change their eating habits, and should quit smoking.

Another study on 40 to 55 years patients revealed sedentary style as the main culprit, which can be countered through regular exercise that can help improve the heart fitness by 25 percent, control hypertension and diabetes, he said.

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