Heart health first

Simple lifestyle changes, nutritious diet, and regular exercise can significantly reduce your risk of heart disease

- Dr Noor Gill

Dr Amit Singh is Senior Interventional Cardiologist and Heart failure specialist at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital. He is at the forefront of cardiac healthcare in the Mumbai metropolitan region. He's trained at St. GS Medical College at KEM Hospital. His expertise is in interventional cardiology and management of heart failure patients.

Prevention is better than cure. Fitness will help you in the long run.

Being healthy is not just merely the absence of a disease. A healthy individual is one who is physically, mentally, emotionally and socially healthy as well. The holy four to keep your heart healthy:

1. Nutrition

2. Physical activity

3. Staying away from bad addiction such as smoking

4. Avoid drinking

Even after making the necessary lifestyle and behavioural modifications, we can only reduce the risk of developing a heart disease but never reduce it to an absolute zero. This is because there are some risk factors which are non modifiable and cannot be changed. These non modifiable risk factors include:

• Age

• Gender

• Ethnicity: South East Asian population has the highest risk of developing a heart disease in the entire world

• Genetic make up