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Know your HEART
Dr.S.C. Sinha and Dr.K. Gopalakrishna and the Seven Hills Hospital have done yeoman service to humanity by bringing out a handy booklet explaining all aspects of the human heart and underlining the need to take care of it.
Written in simple English and Telugu so that it would be intelligible even to the layperson, the booklet - titled 'Patient Education in Heart Series-I' and 'Mee Kosam, Mee Gunde Kosam' - satiates the reader's hunger to know more about this most vital organ of the human frame.
Its four chapters - Know your heart; Tests for the heart; High blood pressure; and Heart attack - are highly educative and capable of creating an urge among the readers to maintain good health.
Based on the authors' estimate that "India will have the highest number of heart attacks and brain strokes in the world by 2020", their analysis largely aims at the preventive aspect pertaining to heart attacks, emphasising that prevention is better than cure.
The authors have also suggested the following life style management to obviate cardiac problems: quit smoking; be physically active; walk for 30 to 40 minutes daily; lose weight if you are of overweight; restrict your daily salt intake; eat more fresh fruits and vegetables; limit alcohol intake and manage stress.
The booklets were released at a function last week by the Vizag Journalists Forum president, S.S. Siva Sankar. Dr. Sinha and Dr. Gopalakrishna spoke explaining how their experience in treating cardiac patients impelled them to write down the basics for the benefit of people. The hospital's marketing executive, Surya Prakash, compered the programme.
R. SAMPATH
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