Health Tips by Punjab Institute of Cardiology
Punjab Institute of Cardiology is a specialized tertiary care hospital providing state of the art treatment to cardiac patients. PIC is also playing lead role in research and postgraduate training in the field of Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Anesthesia, Electrophysiology and Interventional Cardiology. The risk factors for cardiovascular disease are diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, smoking, family history, obesity and stress.These factors should be checked every 90 to 120 days. A brief explainantion of these factors is given below: Diabetes Diabetes Mellitus is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, increasing its risk by about two to three times for men and three to five times for women. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in diabetic patients and approximately 25 percent of heart attack survivors have diabetes. Diabetes is a more potent risk factor in women as compared to men since diabetic women have twice the risk of a second heart attac...