A Gujarati heart is 10 years older than its physical age
Radha.Sharma@timesgroup.com
Ahmedabad: 26.05.2018
Age is just a number, they say. But when it comes to the matters of heart, Gujaratis may want to sit up and take notice. A study on 2,500-odd healthy Gujaratis with no history of major illness has found that the average age of their hearts was a good 10 years older than their chronological age!
The study titled ‘Are Gujarati Asian Indians older for their vascular age as compared to their chronological age?’ carried out by cardiologists at UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology has revealed premature vascular ageing of blood vessels supplying blood to key organs including the heart. The study has been published in QJM, an international journal of medicine printed by the Oxford University Press.
Principal investigator of the study, Dr Kamal Sharma, an associate professor of cardiology at UN Mehta said the study calculated vascular age of 2,483 healthy people who opted for medical check-up to know their health status. “The vascular age of the heart was calculated using Framingham vascular age calculator evaluating major risk factors like blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking and obesity,” said Dr Sharma.
Other investigators are doctors S Sahoo, KH Shah, AK Patel, ND Jadhav, MM Parmar and KH Patel.
A study carried out among Europeans using Framingham calculator found that heart age of Caucasians almost matched their physical age. The need for local-variant of this study was triggered by a rise in patients in their 30s and 40s coming with severe heart diseases.
“Alarmingly, over the past few years, we found nearly 40% patients with heart disease episodes to be in their 30s and 40s. We wondered if the heart ageing was accelerated in Gujarati population and the study did confirm our worst fears,” says Dr Sharma.
Radha.Sharma@timesgroup.com
Ahmedabad: 26.05.2018
Age is just a number, they say. But when it comes to the matters of heart, Gujaratis may want to sit up and take notice. A study on 2,500-odd healthy Gujaratis with no history of major illness has found that the average age of their hearts was a good 10 years older than their chronological age!
The study titled ‘Are Gujarati Asian Indians older for their vascular age as compared to their chronological age?’ carried out by cardiologists at UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology has revealed premature vascular ageing of blood vessels supplying blood to key organs including the heart. The study has been published in QJM, an international journal of medicine printed by the Oxford University Press.
Principal investigator of the study, Dr Kamal Sharma, an associate professor of cardiology at UN Mehta said the study calculated vascular age of 2,483 healthy people who opted for medical check-up to know their health status. “The vascular age of the heart was calculated using Framingham vascular age calculator evaluating major risk factors like blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking and obesity,” said Dr Sharma.
Other investigators are doctors S Sahoo, KH Shah, AK Patel, ND Jadhav, MM Parmar and KH Patel.
A study carried out among Europeans using Framingham calculator found that heart age of Caucasians almost matched their physical age. The need for local-variant of this study was triggered by a rise in patients in their 30s and 40s coming with severe heart diseases.
“Alarmingly, over the past few years, we found nearly 40% patients with heart disease episodes to be in their 30s and 40s. We wondered if the heart ageing was accelerated in Gujarati population and the study did confirm our worst fears,” says Dr Sharma.
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