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| Childhood risk factors: Future burden of coronary heart disease : Dr Sushil | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 19: In view of increasing prevalence of cardiovascular ailments in younger masses and minimal awareness regarding same Head Department of Cardiology GMCH Jammu Dr Sushil Sharma held a day long cardiac awareness Cum health Check up camp in loving memory of Lt. Aman Kumar Wazir at Wazir Janki Nath Memorial Higher Secondary School , Rani Bagh Jammu. The people and particularly younger generation were educated regarding the need to adopt optimal cardiovascular lifestyle right from childhood which will in turn lead to reduced socioeconomic burden and morbidity.
While interacting with the people Dr Sushil Stated that Cardiovascular diseases are the main causes of death and health costs in developed as well as developing countries. Although cardiovascular diseases are thought to affect only adulthood, the underlying process of atherosclerosis begins in the first decade of life.
Epidemiological studies show that severity of atherosclerosis depends both on the number and intensity of risk factors. Early detection of cardiovascular risk in childhood is the most powerful tool to prevent cardiovascular accidents in adulthood and possibly reduce its consequent burden for the future.
Dr Sushil Sharma while emphasising on the primary prevention of cardiac ailments told that atherosclerosis begins in childhood and there currently is an increasing prevalence of children in both developed and developing nations with cardiovascular risk factors.
It is now possible to detect early evidence of arterial disease. Major gains will likely accrue from public health strategies targeting overweight, exercise and cigarette smoking.
Individualised atheroprotective strategies in childhood, however, will initially focus on the highest risk children such as those with familial hyperlipidaemia, diabetes, hypertension and obesity.
In the future, genotype and phenotype information may allow the targeting of interventions in childhood that might prevent clinical vascular events in adult life.
He elaborated that among the various cardiovascular risk factors, LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) is probably the most implicated in the development of atherosclerotic plaques. Continuous exposure to high serum LDL-C levels during adolescence can lead to the accumulation of calcium in the coronary arteries and, consequently, to the development of atherosclerotic plaques in adulthood.
Hypertension in children is a leading determinant of CVD in adults.
The estimated prevalence of arterial hypertension in children and adolescents aged 0 to 18 years ranges from 3 to 5%. Optimal cardiovascular health, defined as avoiding smoking, physical inactivity, obesity, poor diet, hypertension, high cholesterol, and diabetes, is associated with less incident heart failure and vascular disease .
However, <1% of children meet all 7 criteria for ideal health, He said.
Management Committee of the Wazir Janki Nath Memorial Higher Secondary School Himalini Singh Wazir ( Principal), Dimple Sharma, Anju Rajput, Yashvardhan Singh ,Manjit Singh and Raghini Singh Wazir appreciated the efforts of Dr Sushil and his team for conducting cardiac awareness cum health check up camp in their premises.
Others who were part of this Camp includes Dr Nasir Ali Choudhary , Dr Yashwant Sharma and Dr Dhaneshwer kapoor . Paramedics and volunteers includes kamal Sharma , Arun Singh, Nitish Mahajan ,Faisal Rashid , Maninder Singh ,Rohit Nayyar, Mukesh kumar ,Jatin Bhasin ,Arjun Ghuman , Ranjit singh, Moosa Mushtaq, Gourav Sharma , Rajinder Singh , Vikas Kumar and Nirvair Singh Bali . |
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