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‘S Asian lifestyle leads to high heart attack risk’

South Asians have higher rates of heart attack at younger ages compared with people from other parts of the world, top cardiologists have found.

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NEW DELHI: South Asians have higher rates of heart attack at younger ages compared with people from other parts of the world, top cardiologists have found.

In a study published in Wednesday’s edition of Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a team of leading cardiologists from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, WHO, Hamilton and Ontario have found that the average age for first heart attack among South Asians is 53 against 58.8 years in rest of the world.

The researchers included Srinath Reddy and Dr Prabhakaran Dorairaj from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Dr Prashant Joshi, from Department of Medicine, Government Medical College, Nagpur and Dr Prem Pais, Department of Medicine, St John's Medical College, Bangalore.

These cardiologists conducted a case-control study of over 27,000 people comparing cardiac risk factors in South Asians with those in persons from 47 other countries.

“The protective factors were lower in South Asian controls,” says the study. This means the leisure-time physical activity, regular alcohol intake, and daily fruit and vegetable intake were found to be significantly  lower among South Asians while harmful risk factors like smoking, diabetes, elevated apolipoprotein B100: apolipoprotein A-I ratio were alarmingly higher, compared with persons from other countries.

Tobacco use, obesity, hypertension, depression and stress at work or home were also found to be the harmful factors behind these heart attacks.

Interestingly, alcohol consumption  was not found to be a risk factor among South Asians.

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