Is it ok if I Drink alcohol?
AHA Recommendation
Consuming alcohol in moderation can reduce the Heart disease risk; this means an average of one to two drinks per day for men and one drink per day for women is the recommendation.
(A drink is one 12 oz. beer / 4 oz. of wine / 1.5 oz. of 80-proof spirits or 1 oz. of 100-proof spirits.)
(1 oz=30 ml)
Therefore,
12 oz of beer= 360ml
4 oz of wine=120ml
1.5 oz of 80-proof spirits=45ml
1 oz of 100-proof spirits=30ml
RED WINE-particularly of more importance
Red wine is a particularly rich source of antioxidants flavonoid phenolics, particularly resveratrol and the flavonoids. Resveratrol, found in grape skins and seeds, increases HDL cholesterol and prevent blood clotting. Flavonoids, on the other hand, exhibit antioxidant properties helping prevent blood clots and plaques formation in arteries.
Red wine can raise HDL cholesterol and prevent LDL cholesterol from forming. Red wine may help prevent blood clots and reduce the blood vessel damage caused by fat deposits.
Why we need awareness about this technology in our society?
1. As discussed above, the ‘primary’ angioplasty SAVES many more lives than the existing routinely practiced medical (thrombolytic) therapy.
2. Most patients go home on day-2 or 3 in absolute healthy state, thereby reducing the prolonged hospital stay involved with the conventional medical therapy.
3. The 60-65% of the cases where the thrombolytic drugs do work only takes care of the clot burden and not the underlying block. Most of these patients anyway require an elective routine angioplasty or a bypass surgery later.
4. Most centers in the developed countries have already started the primary angioplasty as the first line of therapy for the heart attack patients after multiple studies and an international meta-analysis proved and established that primary angioplasty is markedly superior to medical thrombolytic treatment.
Why are we not doing it in every hospital?
- Lack of public awareness about both heart attack and best treatment options available.
- Delayed presentation to the hospital thereby falling out of window period for multiple reasons. These are, again, lack of awareness not only among lay people, but referring general practitioners; huge distances to be covered before reaching the hospital; traffic congestion (last two are applicable especially to all the metropolitan cities of the country).
- Availability of trained in-house interventional cardiologists along with the whole team who can react to the crisis within minutes.
Direct your queries to:
Dr Ganesh Kumar,
Chief Interventional Cardiologist,
Dr LH Hiranandani Hospital,
Powai, Mumbai
Mobile-98204-73842
Email : ganesh.kumar@hiranandanihospital.org
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