How do you react when you heard the news of two popular faces who took their fitness very seriously succumbing to a heart attack at the age of 40? The passing of Sidharth Shukla (40 years) and superstar Puneeth Rajkumar (46 years) made us question if exercising is actually an answer to a long and healthy life.
Doctors warn that exercise, especially moderate weight training without knowing the underlying heart condition is not good.
Dr.
Sanjay Mittal Director of Clinical and Preventive Cardiology, Heart Institute, Medanta explains, “Every drug is toxic when administered at the wrong time and the wrong dosages, as well as sports.
certain exercises in normal people also can increase the risk of certain disorders.
This can prove to be fatal at times.
Therefore, it is important to get yourself evaluated before you take heavy exercise.
There is a certain category of people for whom exercise can trigger heart attacks.
narrowing of the aortic valve, if there are anomalies of the heart circulation means coronary artery arising from the wrong sinus; electrical irregularities can affect one’s heart to collapse after a workout.
It’s best to get yourself evaluated before you take strenuous exercise.
The problem of non-detection of heart disease is a very serious one.
During exercise and heart health: Signs for notification
Dr.
Mittal shares some signs one should not overlook:
If a person feels dizzy or light headed while exercising, you must first get yourself evaluated.
If you are hypertensive (extreme hypertension), it is important to control your BP and sport later
If you have a family history of young people who suddenly collapse without warning, you may carry a gene that predisposes you to certain collapse so as to get an ECG done
If you have chest discomfort, shortness of breath who should not, get yourself evaluated
Improving the performance of the drug can cause heart irregularities and collapse and even a heart attack
Heart disease is no more a disease of aging
Dr Rajesh Thachathodiyl, Professor and Head of Department of Adult Cardiology, Amrita Hospital, Kochi added, “Previously, heart attack known as a disease of aging and usually, people over the age of 60 are prone to it.
But the scenario has changed over the last few years and now more and more population falling into this young.
It is also true that even though you look very fit and healthy from the outside, inside your body can no illness is that you really do not realize.
Even in the WTO we see around 200 young patients in a month with heart problems.
There are several factors that lead to heart attack or a heart attack at the young population, the stress being on the trigger problems such as high blood-pressure, cholesterol, insomnia, poor eating habits, and do not follow a healthy lifestyle.
Before this scenario work-from-home, most people use to travel to their offices and visit many places, and hence the active body movements.
Once a pandemic strikes, active routine everyone stopped and now this lethargic lifestyle is what children adapted to sit all day in front of the computer and then TV.
Also, when you have a family history of heart disease you should be extra careful with your lifestyle.
Exercising and maintaining a healthy diet for good boundaries but outside of that, you need to be careful, rigorous exercise can be planned only after a thorough examination of the heart.
A suggestion would be to get regular health check ups done and know what is going on in your body and let the experts give advice and not be a master of your own.
Routine screening is important
Incidentally, when the symptoms of heart problems began to appear, the disease is sometimes already in an advanced stage.
Dr Santosh Kumar Dora, Senior Cardiologist, Asian Heart Institute, Mumbai explains, “Exertional chest discomfort or shortness of breath indicates the possibility of a heart problem and then further tests are needed to establish the cause.
Periodic screening tests required to assess the problem at an early stage, so that appropriate treatment can be given before significant damage to the heart occurs.
General screening test is an ECG, 2D echocardiogram, stress test, CT coronary calcium scan.
cardiac screening test is recommended once a year or once in two years after the age of 40 in the general population or after the age of 30 in high-risk populations.
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