IEP Mohali, February 6
As many as 1000 including students and faculty attended a workshop on ‘Management of cardiovascular health and stress among youngsters’ at Chandigarh Group of Colleges on Monday.
Addressing the workshop, Dr. Deepak Puri, director of cardiovascular at Max Hospital, Mohali said that there has been a 30 percent rise of fatal heart attacks in the age group 25 to 44 years ever since the onset of COVID pandemic.
He emphasized that the patients who needed hospitalization for COVID are having much more severe after effects with 27.3 times increase complications due to clot formation, 21.6 times increase in heart failure, 17.5 times increased risk of stroke ,10 times increased risk of arrhythmias and 118 times increase risk of death. Whereas in non-hospitalized COVID patients’ risk of death has increased more than 10 times according to a recent report from Queen Mary University of London, he informed.
