1Asst Professor, Dept of Community and Family medicine, AIIMSRishikesh
2Professor, Dept of Community and Family medicine, AIIMSRishikesh
*Corresponding Author: Dr Meenakshi Khapre MD (Community Medicine), Asst Professor, Dept of Community and Family Medicine, AIIMS, Rishikesh Phone: 8275395006 Email: drmeenaxi15@ymail.com
Online published on 20 March, 2019.
India is experiencing epidemiologic transition with sharp increase in coronary heart disease. Fatality rate of CHD is alarmingly high leading to most common cause of premature mortality in year 2016. There is growing burden of coronary risk factors owing to rapid urbanization and changes in lifestyle including diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension (HTN), dyslipidemia, smoking, alcohol consumption, dietary patterns, central obesity physical inactivity, psychological factors. Burden of this risk factors in India is being reviewed in this article. The article concludes risk factors of CHD is highly prevalent in India.
Coronary heart disease, India, risk factor
