More than 17 lakh Indians getting heart attack did not get right treatment : CSI NIC
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New Delhi : The Cardiological Society of India-Delhi Branch organised Mid-Term Meet of National Interventional Council (NIC) at New Delhi during 14th-16th April, 2017, presented the largest data collected from around 960 cardiology centres across the India, revealing some astonishing figures about the burden of Cardiac disease in the country and its treatment in the country.
Dr NN Khanna, Cardiologist and Organizing Chairman of NIC, presented the data on Heart attacks in India highlighting that in the year 2016-17, around 30 lakh persons in the country suffered from Acute Heart Attack and were presented at the various treatment facilities. Of these 12 % were less than 40 years age which is noted as a substantial increase in younger MI from last year.
It was noted that with concern that there was a sharp rise in the occurrence of Acute MI in persons less than 40 years of age which is in sharp contrast with the western patterns.
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