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• Heart attack hits 20-plus age group 

Heartache and cardiac problems have emerged as the most common lifestyle and work-related diseases today. Earlier, people above the 40-45 age bracket were vulnerable to cardiac-related diseases.

“It’s quite surprising but nowadays, people below 30 are suffering from cardiac problems. Such cases are on rise,” said Shuvo Dutta, consultant cardiologist of BM Birla Heart Research Centre, who treated a 24-year-old youth, who had suffered a massive cardiac arrest. . . .

“Hypertension and stress in the workplace has increased manifold. Besides, odd working hours, rise in smoking and drinking habits and chewing of tobacco account for heart problems at a young age,” he pointed out.

“The alarming factor is the changing disease patterns, like early heart attacks and resultant myocardial damage, is much more severe,” observed Kunal Sarkar, cardiac surgeon of Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences. . . .

One of the major factors responsible is rise in diabetes at an early age.

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