Pollution giving youngsters heart ailments: Fortis Institute chairman

 NEW DELHI:- It is generally believed that increasing prevalance of heart ailments in India is tied to faulty lifestyle choices and the genetics that make Indians prone to them. However, experts are now starting to evaluate the environmental factor behind this.

While attending Nagpur Live 2016 that took place in the city this weekend, chairman of New Delhi's Fortis Escorts Heart Institute Dr Ashok Seth spoke about it. He called pollution as one of the biggest contributors towards more youngsters having heart diseases.

"The high level of ground level ozone, patriculate matter, poisonous gases like carbon monoxide and sulphur dioxide lead to accumulations in arteries. It also leads to arteries getting narrower. The air quality indices of all Indian cities are bad," he said. He added that there is an urgent need to transform our breathing spaces for the countrymen to lead healthy lives.

Dr Seth said that even youngsters who have not been exposed to the risk factors like tobacco, cigarettes, sedentary lifestyle or faulty food habits are having heart troubles these days. "Their health is bad enough that it can be compared to a person who has the habit of smoking at least two cigarettes every day. Being exposed to such unhealthy atmosphere from a very early age, they tend to be unhealthy despite leading a reasonably healthy life otherwise," he said.

Urgent intervention is very necessary, especially considering the fact that heart diseases among the younger age group have risen ten times over the last few decades, he said.

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