We believe that heart disease is only linked to our physical activities. Our thoughts, moods, attitudes and emotions also accelerate by the onset of heart disease and they can also get in the way of thinking positive towards your health. Physical activities like smoking, poor diet, lack of exercise, heavy drinking increase the risk of getting high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart attacks, heart stokes, and other cardiovascular issues. But your thoughts are as important as these physical activities. We know that coronary disease is the leading cause of death in the world. People living with cardiovascular disease are more likely to acquire mental disorders like, depression, chronic stress, anxiety disorders and more. Depression is common if you are a heart patient Depression is linked with other risk factors of heart disease like unhealthy lifestyle. Depression is quite common in people who are suffering with any heart disease. Depression reduces the chance of adapting hea
Dr. Ranjit Jagtap is a functioning individual from the Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons (IACTS).