In the last 5 years, there has been an increase of up to 50% in the demand for cardiac medication in India. According to the Times of India report, this increase is not just a health trend but a serious public health warning. Rapidly changing lifestyle, increasing stress, food disturbances and lack of physical activities have made heart diseases from youth to elderly.
Dr. Varun Bansal in Cardiology Department at Apollo Hospital According to, earlier heart disease usually occurred after the age of 50-60 years, but now cases like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and heart attack are increasing among people between 25 and 40 years. The situation has worsened after Kovid epidemic. Because in many patients, after infection, post-covid cardiac complications were seen, for which the medicine lasts for a long time. This is the reason why there was a sharp jump in the consumption of drugs.
120/80 mmhg now alert zone
Apart from this, in recent years, doctors have already started prescribing cardiac medicines as prevention (prevention) in view of the risk of heart disease in patients. Earlier, where 140/90 mmhg was considered a hypertension, according to the new guidelines, now blood pressure above 120/80 mmhg is also considered in the alert zone. Due to which more people are needing medicines than before. There are many deep and worrying reasons behind the demand for cardiac medication (cardiovascular medicines) growing so fast in India.
1 Increasing burden of heart diseases-
Every third death in India is due to heart disease. Heart diseases are no longer limited to the elderly but are also growing rapidly among the youth of 25 to 40 years. This has also increased the need for medicines.
2 Lifestyle declines-
Nowadays sitting lifestyle, fast food, lack of sleep and increasing stress are increasing factors like hypertension (high blood pressure), cholesterol and obesity which are major causes of heart disease.
3 Better diagnosis and awareness-
Now more people have started getting health checkups and diseases are quickly detected. Due to this, patients have to start medicines quickly. Medical facilities and testing are now reaching villages.
4 Changes in the practice of doctors-
Now cardiologist and general physicians are more cautious about the risk of heart disease. They also start medicines for prevention of prevention so that the risk can be reduced.
5 Viral infection and post-covid bearing-
After Kovid-19, many patients saw complications related to heart, which further increased the demand for anti-clotting and heart medication.
Early detection and increasing awareness
Increasing awareness and easy availability of health checkups has also increased diagnosis. Where earlier people used to ignore heart discomfort, now ECG, BP, cholesterol has started to be investigated on small complaints. This requires patients quickly treatment and medicine, which is also a good thing because early detection can avoid conditions like heart attack and stroke.
Change in lifestyle is necessary
But this trend also suggests that if people did not change their lifestyle- such as a balanced diet, regular exercise, stress management and adequate sleep. So heart disease can be more common in the coming years. Therefore, now is the time that people should not depend only on medicines, but to keep the heart healthy, adopt a conscious lifestyle so that this crisis does not become a health emergency.