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  Facts About Heart Disease That Everyone Should Know!! In the fast-moving world, everyone is concerned about their life and health. Recently, in the view of cardiologists in Indore, people started noticing that heart disease is affecting younger people. Everything is a piece of news until something happens to us and our loved ones. People mostly think heart disease is a problem for others, but heart diseases are the most problematic and life-threatening. It is important to understand heart disease and its risk factors because awareness about heart disease is high in India. Among the people believing the myth of ‘heart disease affects only older group’, society must understand that heart attacks can happen in young adults too. Before explaining heart disease, let’s look at why is the prevalence of heart disease is common in India. Indians have high rates of diabetes, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and smoking which are the major risk factors for cardiac disease. In 2016, a study con

What is Angiography and Why is it needed | Cardiologist Indore - Dr. Siddhant Jain

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In this article, Dr. Siddhant Jain, Senior Interventional and Consultant Cardiologist will talk about angiography, what is angiography, why it is used, is angiography dangerous or not, and what are the charges for angiography. What is Angiography and Why is it Needed? Angiography is one of the tests that is used to look for blockages in the arteries of the heart where we can access it through a catheter and medicine is injected, then we do x-rays and after looking at that picture the doctor can know how much is the blockage.  If the blockage is more than it is treated with a stent, balloon, or sometimes bypass surgery, if the blockage is so much, It is not much that medical treatment alone is enough so to know this the test is known as angiography. Is There Pain or Danger During Angiography? There is no pain at all in angiography. Angiography is done with the help of a small needle. First, anesthesia is given with a small needle, from where the test needs to be done, a 2 mm wire reache