PANAJI: Dr Ramdas Nayak, interventional cardiologist and electro physiologist on the occasion of World Heart Day told media persons that coronary artery diseases is rising epidemic and gave tips for a healthy heart and stress free life, at the Vivus He art Centre, recently. He said cardio vascular disease (CVD) is prevalent in India has risen 4-fold in the past four decades.

CVD is expected to be the leading cause of death and disability by 2020, CVD already causes 29 per cent of all deaths in the country. Indians are succumbing to heart disease and stroke in the most productive years of their lives; about a decade earlier than their western counterparts" Dr Nayak cautioned.