Myths about heart disease among urban women revealed

Dr. Jagdish Hiremath – Cardiologist, Pune.

• Setting the Context
• Survey Methodology
• Demographic profile of the sample
• Health consciousness among urban women in India 
• Proactively taking regular health check up
• Frequency of getting an Cholesterol test done
• Frequency of getting an ECG test done 
• Awareness about Heart Care & Diseases
• Awareness of stress test for detection of Coronary Artery Disease
• Knowledge on either Heart attack or Coronary artery disease
• Awareness on symptoms on heart disease
• Awareness of various treatments for heart disease
• Awareness of Interventional methods due to heart disease incidences in the family
• Awareness of key cause of Heart ailments
• Awareness on susceptibility to heart disease as compared to other disease
• General Awareness on Heart incidences at a global level , in year 2010
• Health Information Source
• Need for knowledge on proactive heart care
• Conclusions

Observations:

• Approximately 40% of the women feel that the key  cause of heart
   diseases is high stress in working environment.

Observations:

• Women feel that they are least prone to heart disease as compared to
    other diseases like breast cancer, osteoporosis and diabetes. 
  

Observations:

• India has been rated as the country, which will have highest number of
   patients with heart ailments by year 2010.
  

Observations:

• Newspapers are the key source for gaining health related information
   (60%). Pune Times of India, regional daily like Sakal have been frequent
   mentions. 
  
• 48% of people watch TV channels to get health related information.
   Channels like DD1, Aastha channels have been some of the specific
   mentions of TV channels. 
  
• Referring family doctors is one of the responses apart from th
   above-mentioned sources of health information.

Observations:

• A large number of women have expressed their interest to know more
   about pro-active heart care.