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Get latest articles and stories on Business at LatestLY. Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 28: In India, it is estimated that about 5-6 lakh people die every year due to sudden cardiac death (SCD), with a good proportion of them being under the age of 50. In fact, India and other developing countries are facing an epidemic of cardiovascular disease driven by changing lifestyles. This concern was also highlighted and stressed by the recently published Lancet Commission on SCD. The Lancet is the top-ranked medical journal in the world and regularly brings out Commissions on matters of crucial public health importance. The most recent Lancet Commission was on SCD and was constituted three years ago by the Lancet, bringing together more than 30 international experts in varied disciplines to provide the path forward in reducing global SCD burden.
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 28: In India, it is estimated that about 5-6 lakh people die every year due to sudden cardiac death (SCD), with a good proportion of them being under the age of 50. In fact, India and other developing countries are facing an epidemic of cardiovascular disease driven by changing lifestyles. This concern was also highlighted and stressed by the recently published Lancet Commission on SCD. The Lancet is the top-ranked medical journal in the world and regularly brings out Commissions on matters of crucial public health importance. The most recent Lancet Commission was on SCD and was constituted three years ago by the Lancet, bringing together more than 30 international experts in varied disciplines to provide the path forward in reducing global SCD burden.
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Dr Kumar Narayanan, Senior Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at Medicover Hospitals, Hyderabad and an acknowledged expert in the field of SCD was the Deputy Chair of this consortium. He states that, “the fact that survival from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) remains lower than 10% in most parts of the world is unacceptable. This Commission places strong emphasis on the need to make communities an active partner in responding to SCA, maximizing bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and public access automated external defibrillator (AED) use, in order to improve survival after SCA. Research has shown that with immediate CPR and AED use after an SCA, survival can be improved from
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