With pandemic of metabolic syndrome looming over urban as well as rural population, Head Department of Cardiology GMCH Jammu Dr Sushil Sharma held a day long cardiac awareness-cum-health check up camp at Shiv Mandir, Muthi village Block Bhalwal, Jammu with main motto of educating people about the ill consequences of metabolic syndrome and remedies there off so as to adopt a cardiac friendly diet and lifestyle and prevent cardiac complications at early stage.
While interacting with the people, Dr Sushil stated that metabolic syndrome is defined as the concurrence of obesity-associated cardiovascular risk factors including abdominal obesity, impaired glucose tolerance, hypertriglyceridemia, decreased HDL cholesterol, and/or hypertension. Earlier, conceptualizations of the MetS focused on insulin resistance as a core feature, and it is clearly coincident with the above list of features.”
“Each component of the syndrome is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease and the combination of these risk factors elevates rates and severity of cardiovascular disease, related to a spectrum of cardiovascular conditions including microvascular dysfunction, coronary atherosclerosis and calcification, cardiac dysfunction, myocardial infarction, and heart failure. While advances in understanding the etiology and consequences of this complex disorder have been made, the underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms remain incompletely understood, and it is unclear how these concurrent risk factors conspire to produce the variety of obesity-associated adverse cardiovascular diseases,” Dr Sharma said.
Others who were part of the camp include Dr Dhaneshwer Kapoor and Dr Devinder Singh . Paramedics and volunteers include Paramveer Singh,Vinay Kumar, Jatin Bhasin ,Amish Jamwal, Rahul Vaid, Sunil Pandit, Mukesh Kumar, Gourav Sharma, Amnish Dutta, Ranjeet Singh and Raj Kumar.
Adopt cardiac friendly diet, lifestyle: Dr Sharma
