India, May 12 -- Heart attacks were once considered a concern for people in their sixties or seventies. Hearing about someone in their thirties suffering a fatal cardiac event was rare. But things have changed. Nowadays, it is horrifyingly common to hear of young Indians, even late twenties or early thirties old, suffering heart attacks. In fact, there is now one in four heart attack deaths in India in people aged under 40.

Heart attack usually occurs when a clot clogs blood reaching the heart. A significant 21percent of these cases if not treated can lead to death. The real issue lies in what leads up to the formation of that clot. It is an aggregation of the years of unnoticed silent risk factors which are never monitored.

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