Why is Preventive Health Care so important?

Because about half of all deaths from heart disease are sudden and unexpected, there's little opportunity for treatment. For people at risk of sudden death, prevention is the only hope.

That's why more effort should be focused on prevention. Atherosclerosis begins in early adulthood, but it may be decades before clinical disease shows up. We don't fully understand all arises of heart disease, but large epidemiological studies have identified risk factors and strategies to reduce the risk. The risk factors we can modify, treat or control include

• Daily exercise
• Weight control
• Proper nutrition
• Avoidance of smoking and drug abuse
• Abstinence from or moderate alcohol use
• Control of high blood pressure

The decline in death rates from cardiovascular disease in the United States may be due largely to the public's adopting a more healthful lifestyle. This underscores why it's important for the medical profession to advocate prevention strategies. More and more evidence shows that atherosclerotic plaques in arteries can regress even in people with advanced disease. As our understanding of the causes of Disease process improves, the day will come when we can direct preventive measures at the disease process itself.
  

• Take an appointment before hand.
• Report to the reception at 8.33 a.m. and collect investigation chart / OPD card 
• You should be fasting overnight from 10 p.m. and can only take 2-3 glasses of water in morning 
• Blood / Urine samples to be given first (Laboratory) 
• USG - has to be on fasting stomach, if USG pelvis is / KUB has to be done  you need a full bladder
• For females,  X-ray chest should not be done, if there is a possibility of pregnancy 
• After investigations for which you need to be fasting are over you can have your breakfast 
  (A complementary breakfast will be served by the hospital )
• Two hrs. after breakfast, 2nd blood sample will be drawn 
• If appointment has been taken earlier for EHC a gynecologist will be available for examination
• All reports with appropriate comments will be available 2 days later 
• For further details and an appointment please contact Front Office extension no. 201 .