It is not unknown that Indians get heart disease at least 10-15 years before their western counterparts. This may not be too far-fetched with respect to cases in other nations when health is put your health in perspective. Prevention is the key to combatting such phenomenon and the approach should be such that by the age of 30, every Indian should have a full check up to understand what their risk factors are.

Considerable risk factors are family history, heart disease, diabetes, previous heart attacks, genetic propensity to develop certain diseases, diet, pollution, stress, exercise lack or over, cholesterol, smoking alcohol, lifestyle modifications and preexisting propensity.

Considerable recommendations: get checked as early as age 30 to reap huge dividend and if normal, repeat in 5 years. Screen people for risk factors including footprints of diabetes. There should be awareness that the ability to exercise can be deceptive (young people suddenly developing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy —-> cardiac arrest and death e.g. In 1993, Carl Lewis Boston Celtics slumped during practice and died).