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Child Heart Foundation Organises Free Health Check-ups for Underprivileged
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 7: On the occasion of World Heart Day on September 29th, the Child Heart Foundation, a Delhi-based NGO offering FREE fetal and paediatric echo screenings, organized an event to celebrate the lives of heart warriors and supporters. The event brought together a vibra
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Fitterfly Launches FitHeart - A Clinically Proven Digital Program for Impr
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 8: Heart disease is a growing concern in India, with more than 22 crore people affected by hypertension and other heart ailments. Finding affordable, reliable, and accessible heart care is a challenge. To address this need, Fitterfly has launched FitHeart,
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Sahyadri Hospitals and Rotary Club of Pune Pristine relaunch Mission Prera
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], February 16 (ANI/PRNewswire): With a view to make Paediatric Tertiary Health Care easily accessible for all, Sahyadri Hospitals and Rotary Club of Pune Pristine have re-launched 'Mission Prerana'. Under this program underprivileged kids with heart ailments will un
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Lupin gets US regulator's nod for Prasugrel tablets used in heart ailments
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The product will be manufactured at Lupin's facility in Goa, according to a statement from the pharma firm.
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Warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest provide opportunity for prevention
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Sudden cardiac arrest causes one in five deaths in industrialised countries.2 Most sudden cardiac arrests occur in the community in people not known to be at risk. A cardiac arrhythmia, called ventricular fibrillation, causes the heart to stop pumping and blood flow to cease. If blood flow i
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Bad cholesterol, high blood pressure contribute to heart attack risk
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
According to new research published in Hypertension, a journal of the American Heart Association, high levels of lipoprotein(a), a type of "bad" cholesterol, may be linked to an 18-20 per cent increased risk of cardiovascular disease among those who have hypertension. However, CVD risk was n
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Combination of bad cholesterol, high blood pressure may increase heart att
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
High levels of lipoprotein(a), a type of "bad" cholesterol, may be associated with an 18-20 per cent higher risk of cardiovascular disease among people who have hypertension. However, CVD risk was not higher among those without hypertension, according to new research
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Extreme weather linked to cardiovascular deaths: Research
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Extremely hot and cold temperatures both increased the risk of death among people with cardiovascular diseases, such as ischemic heart disease (heart problems caused by narrowed heart arteries), stroke, heart failure and arrhythmia, according to new research published today in the American H
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Hearts and bodies change with age, heart disease treatments may need to ch
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
For people ages 75 and older, age-related changes in general health and in the heart and blood vessels require consideration and likely modifications in how heart attacks and heart disease are treated, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published in the Associ
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Decline in deaths from cardiovascular disease anticipated in Japan
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
A key requirement of health policy-makers preparing budgets, and of great interest to those with family histories of cardiovascular disease (CVD), are predictions of future prevalence of this disease. Now, researchers from Japan have used new statistical modelling approaches that have predi
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Kannada star Puneeth Rajkumar's untimely demise sparks conversation about
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 29 (ANI): When it comes to ailments related to the heart, there is not any set age limit, as was seen with the untimely demise of Kannada star Puneeth Rajkumar and prior to that of actor Sidharth Shukla, which once again spotlighted people's attention to the rising
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Regular check-ups can minimise the chances of Heart Diseases
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 13 (ANI/Mediawire): About 18.6 million people in the world die due to heart diseases. But, deaths coz of cardiovascular diseases is highest in India. Covid-19 has made the situation more vulnerable, as it has made 520 million people living with CVD and more likely
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