Heart-to-heart about our heart!
Atherosclerosis is inevitable. Simply speaking it is the buildup of fats, cholesterol and other substances in and on the artery walls leading to narrowing of arteries and resulting in blocking of blood flow thus culminating in what we call as Heart Attack. It begins very early in life (normally in the teens), and takes a while to manifest. But the so-called manifestation period is these days frightfully shortening, to say the least! Check this out Nirmal Pandey (50), Sidharth Shukla (40), Raju Shrivastava (58), Om Puri (66), Farooq Shaikh (65), KK (53), Raj Kaushal (50) all from bollywood, Puneeth Kumar {Tollywood} (46), Vikram Kirloskar {Businessman} (58), Ambareesh Murty {Co-founder Pepperfry} (51), Atlas Ramachandran {Businessman} (65), Ranjan Das CEO SAP (42), Gaurav Gandhi {Cardio Surgeon} (41), Devendra Rajput {Friend} (50) & Deepak Anand {Friend} (55). Check the average age and it will indeed scare you, the latest in the list is Ambareesh, an avid biker, who died in Leh...