World Heart Day is celebrated on 29 September every year and is a chance for people across the globe to take part in the world’s biggest intervention against cardiovascular disease (CVD).This World Heart Day, the focus is on creating heart-healthy environments. By ensuring that people are able to make heart-healthy choices wherever they live, work and play,World Heart Day encourages us all to reduce our cardiovascular risk and promotes a heart-healthy planet for those around us.
Theme: “SHARE THE POWER”
History of World Heart Day
Since 2000, the World Heart Federation has made efforts to spread awareness about the significance of this day. World Heart Day was celebrated each year on the last Sunday of September from the year it was established till 2010. From the year 2011, it was celebrated every year on 29th of September (ie not on the last Sunday of the month).
Why Celebrate World Heart Day?
World heart day is celebrated all across the world to reduce the number of deaths because of cardiovascular diseases worldwide. The following are the major reasons why people recognize this day globally:
- This international campaign aims to spread awareness among common public to motivate them to live with a healthy heart
- It is an effective way to make people around the globe aware that heart ailments are the leading cause of death. (World Heart Federation, in collaboration with the WHO, spreads important news about heart diseases and main risk factors to the public worldwide).
- It motivates people to participate and gain knowledge, undergo proper heart check-ups, and follow other control measures all through their lives.
- It helps to achieve the purpose of improving global heart health by encouraging people to make lifestyle changes and gain knowledge about ways to build a healthy
Sudden Cardiac Death Statistics in India
Presently, cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the world. In the early 2000s, roughly 17 million people worldwide died from cardiovascular diseases annually.
Dr. Balbir Singh, one of the leading interventional cardiologists in Indraprastha, Apollo Hospital, India, has exhorted the Indian population to beware of the dangers of Sudden Cardiac Arrests (SCA) that can lead to death of an individual within a few minutes. As per WHO census statistics mortality due to cardiac causes has overtaken mortality due to all cancers put together. Approximately 4280 out of every one lakh people die every year from SCA in India alone.
World Heart Day Celebration
“FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR HEART”
Share the power
- Know your heart – check BP and blood glucose regularly
- Move your heart – exercise for a healthy living
- Love your heart – quit smoking to improve the health of your heart
- Fuel your heart – help yourselves to a healthy diet each day.
Fascinating Facts about Heart That Must Be Remembered
- Heart of a healthy person beats about 1,15,200 times every day.
- The heart pumps blood to all of the 75 trillion cells of the body.
- Only the Cornea of the eye doesn’t receive blood supply.
- In fact, the heart rate drops while asleep.
- Strangely enough, on an average, women’s hearts beat about 10% faster than men’s.
Furthermore, the World Heart Federation says that “Whether your environment is urban or rural, this is our chance to transform our neighborhoods into heart-healthy environments so that we can achieve a 25% reduction in premature death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) by 2025.
Let us join our hands to share maximum awareness in this wonderful day.
References
- World Heart Day 2017 – Date, Themes, History, Quotesindiacelebrating.com
- World Heart Day: It’s History, Celebration, and Themesiaspaper.net
- Global incidences of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and survival rates: Systematic review of 67 prospective studiescom.br
- Global incidences of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and survival rates: Systematic review of 67 prospective studiescom.br
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- Global burden of Sudden Cardiac Death and insights from Indiancbi.nlm.nih.gov