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Why should you worry about your heart more than COVID-19
Soma Basu
28 SEPTEMBER 2020 14:41 IST
UPDATED: 28 SEPTEMBER 2020 20:13 IST
With altered lifestyles for fear of contracting COVID-19, cardiologists are worried because exercise and diet has taken a backseat, and anxiety and fear looms — none of which bode well for the heart
Even though 17 lakh people have died of cardio vascular diseases this year in India (against one lakh COVID deaths), the scare over COVID is obvious given its highly contagious nature, says Prof Ambuj Roy, professor of cardiology, at AIIMS, Delhi. “Acute (immediate) care always wins over chronic (long-term) care,” he says. “With COVID inducing a kind of unhealthy and fear-ridden lifestyle, it calls for greater caution because in the long run, heart health can be impacted in many ways. We should not neglect what is not apparent.”
What is apparent is this. Cardiologists across the world are reporting a marked increase in sudden cardiac deaths even as the current focus has shifted to the challenges from COVID and other communicable diseases. “The complications of the virus for the human body may not have been still fathomed but COVID has a puzzling relationship with the heart too,” says Dr Amit Bhushan Sharma of Paras Hospital, Gurugram.
COVID has exacerbated existing heart problems. Independent studies from Italy, France, USA and China have corroborated a 50% decline in admission of patients with heart ailments due to their or their family’s reluctance to go to a hospital during the pandemic. A case in point is that of Inderjit, a bank accountant in Indore, with a low heart pumping capacity. With his meticulous regime of exercise, diet and medicines, he was stable since 2012. But he missed his routine follow-ups during the lockdown, scared of a hospital visit. During his walks, he began getting breathless recently and finally sought an appointment with his cardiologist after almost seven months. Tests revealed his heart was struggling to pump blood to the rest of the body, because his regular schedule was disrupted during the period he could not step out of the house. He is one of the several thousands of patients whose chronic heart condition turned acute during lockdown. .Inderjit’s medication was adjusted and his life saved, but many are not so lucky.
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