Watch Your Heart
Website on heart care
INCIDENCE of heart diseases is increasing every year globally at an exponential rate. It is assumed that 15-20 million people in Bangladesh are affected with some form of heart diseases. With the advent of information technology, it has now become possible to bring management and prevention of heart diseases at your fingertip. A website titled www.heartearebd.com has been launched with a view to creating a widespread awareness against heart diseases. The present writer, who is a cardiologist by training and profession, is the initiator of the project. Any person can send any question on heart diseases and he will get an answer within 24 hours. The whole program is absolutely complementary. There are chapters on all related cardiac topics-primary and secondary preventions, risk factors for heart diseases, angiogram, angioplasties, bypass operation and its aftermath, rehabilitation after angioplasty or bypass operation and food habit for a cardiac patient. All these chapters are written in easy non-medical terms so that everyone can understand. Anyone who is not a patient can also have knowledge about heart diseases from the website. So, grab a chair, turn on your PC or laptop and browse through www.heartcarebd.com.
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