Vignesh Dwarakanathan

Today, vaccine can do mor eharm than good.

@GreataSherene @CAGChennai @drkrvcvijay @RinkiSharma Thank you for spreading awareness about the silent killer! And for providing me an opportunity to talk about my side of the story!

@CAGChennai @drkrvcvijay @ViDwarakanathan @RinkiSharma Thank you ! And it was great connecting with people to create awareness on this.

Ms. Greata Sherene Robinson (@GreataSherene), a clinical nutritionist from Apollo Hospitals. Ms. Rinki Sharma (@RinkiSharma), a consumer rights activist with years of experience representing consumer issues. #BeatThePressure

@CAGChennai @RinkiSharma The current situation in India benefits a lot of people, hence a lethargy and inertia at a policy level. Hence, we the people should take our health in our own hands. Who will take care of our family if we are dead, or worse, disabled due to stroke or heart attack? (2/2)

Q13. Why are we taking such a serious view of hypertension now? #BeatThePressure @RinkiSharma

@CAGChennai @RinkiSharma Hypertension is a serious side effect of the current trend of urbanization, migration and industrialization. There is also a certain non-chalant attitude towards healthy habits, and a obesogenic environment in India which should be dealt with! (1/2)

@GreataSherene @CAGChennai Instead of salt, other natural flavouring agents like lemon, pepper etc may be used according to the food items. Also, having fresh fruits lying around at home, or preparing simple salads can reduce the craving for the above mentioned junk food.

@GreataSherene @CAGChennai Specific food items in my patients' diet which I ask them to avoid are pickle, papad or appalam, samosas, kachoris, bajji etc from outside, mixture and namkeen etc. a small portion once in a week might be unavoidable but nothing more than that!

@RinkiSharma @CAGChennai Yes.. Think of hypertension like depression. Medicines are only effective in controlling the end outcome (i.e high blood pressure) of the root cause of this problem (smoking, inadequate physical activity, stress, unhealthy food habits etc.).

@CAGChennai @ViDwarakanathan A8 Hypertension can be managed effectively with lifestyle changes and medications, but it typically requires ongoing treatment. Regular check-ups and healthy habits are crucial for long-term control.#BeatThePressure

@CAGChennai No. Hypertension is persistent increase of blood pressure. Once afflicted with hypertension, a person can only control their blood pressure to prevent more serious complications from arising.

Q8. Can hypertension be cured? #BeatThePressure @ViDwarakanathan

@CAGChennai Self-care in hypertension, hence, becomes very important. If you are hypertensive, please check your blood pressure regulary and note it down to show it to your doctor. Take your medicines regularly. Walk. And eat lots of fruits and vegetables.

Q7. What health problems are associated with high blood pressure? #BeatThePressure @ViDwarakanathan

@CAGChennai These diseases arising because of hypertension should not be taken lightly, because they leave us without the ability to tend to ourselves. It causes a lot of pain, emotional and financial stress to both us and our family members. (2/2)

@CAGChennai Hypertension is associated with many serious diseases, like stroke, heart attack, chronic kidney failure and blindness. In fact, Global Burden of Diseases Study has shown that Hypertension is leading cause of disease, disability and death all over the world and in India (1/2)

@RinkiSharma @CAGChennai Thank you for rephrasing it so nicely @RinkiSharma

@ViDwarakanathan @CAGChennai In my understanding Hypertension can affect anyone, but older adults are more at risk. Men typically develop high blood pressure earlier in life, while women are more prone to hypertension after menopause. Regular check-ups help manage risks effectively.#BeatThePressure

@CAGChennai It’s time to lace up our sneakers with awareness and sprint towards a healthier life, because we are not blessed with protective genes! (2/2) #BeatThePressure

Q6. Is it true that Indians are more prone to hypertension ? #BeatThePressure @ViDwarakanathan

@CAGChennai In this race against hypertension, Indians aren’t sprinting on an easy track. Our genes increase our risk of developing the complications of hypertension, and we are living in an environment which pushes us towards unhealthy lifestyle choices. (1/2)

@CAGChennai Between the two sexes, men are generally shown to have both higher incidence and suffer from serious complications of hypertension up till 60 years of age. Among the elderly, the difference in incidence of hypertension is minimal. (3/3)

Q5. Which age group is more likely to develop hypertension? And between men or women ? #BeatThePressure @ViDwarakanathan

@CAGChennai We have high quality epidemiological data which suggests that the prevalence of hypertension in adolescent children and young people is increasing over the past 40 years in India. (2/3)

@CAGChennai Even though hypertension is thought to be a disease of old age, increasingly, we are also seeing young people of around 30 years of age in our clinics. (1/3)

@theliverdoc The later part of the paragraph is not meant to be scientifically correct, and similar can be found in Robbins pathological basis of disease and oxford handbook of internal medicine. Sir, you can probably write a best-seller undergraduate textbook with only facts and no stories .

Indian medical education will soon become a cringe fest, so much that none of the other countries of the world will accept its [true] value. In this standard ENT textbook taught to students in MBBS, the author, Professor P.L. Dhingra claims that at 20 weeks of gestation, when the cochlea of the ear is developed, the fetus can probably hear in the womb of the mother - ok, all well - but then compares it to how Abhimanyu, when still unborn, heard the conversation between his mother and father, Arjuna in the Indian Hindu religion-related classical epic Mahabharata. Is this how medical science is taught these days? Instead, the author could have simplified the physiology and response of fetal hearing through published facts, such as this paper: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… - or discussed facts such as why the term infant cannot recognize or discriminate meaningful sounds with background noise levels greater than 60 dB - sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Medical educators must first study how not to mix religion into a fact-based teaching resource. Education in medicine is a serious matter and one that cannot be trivialised on examples of fictionalized epic stories. I hope the next editions will feature less stories and more objective facts.

@VlKAS_PR0NAM0 @ThtKashmiriGuy It's not just Bollywood that says this... It's the environmental scientists too

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