HYDERABAD HEALTH RESEARCH: Sedentary lifestyle, Poor diabetes control,  and being overweight are key causes of heart attacks among Indians, revealed a research study.

The big study, "Metabolic Risk Factors in First Acute Coronary Syndrome" (MERIFACSA), addressing the challenges of risk factors in the Indian population, was published in the Indian Heart Journal. Controlling these risk factors is as crucial as controlling traditional risk factors.

15 significant tertiary cardiology facilities from New Delhi to Thiruvananthapuram participated in this study, which was carried out by a group of researchers from across the nation under the direction of primary investigator senior cardiologist Dr. B. Hygriv Rao from KIMS hospital, Hyderabad.

2,153 patients were enrolled over a two-year period, and they were contrasted with 1,200 control subjects. Patients were sought out from  different economic strata and represented both rural and urban population. The patients were, on average, 56 years old, and 76% of them were men. Again, it was demonstrated that even if medical care has advanced over the past 20 years, younger age groups continue to experience heart attacks.

Heart attacks can happen at any age; 66% of men and 56% of women experience them before the age of 60, while 33% of men and 24% of women do so before the age of 50, and 10% happen before the age of 40.

Smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes, and high LDL cholesterol are all known risk factors for heart attacks. 93% of patients had these risk factors, which was to be expected. Other risk variables are acknowledged to be significant but are not given the same weight. These include living a sedentary lifestyle, having poorly controlled diabetes, being overweight (high body mass index, high waist hip ratio), and having high triglycerides (HDL). More than 95% of people who had heart attacks had these variables.

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