All heart disease treatments not costly
Saturday, 18 April 2009
All cardiovascular treatments and investigations are not costly but there is hardly any cure when the disease is fully established, reports BSS.
Professor Shah Munir Hossain, Director General of Department of Health Services said this at a seminar on prevention and management of heart diseases as the chief guest Thursday. He said in developing countries like Bangladesh, there are many patients, but service facilities are grossly inadequate.
"The world would face an impending epidemic of the disease," he told the seminar organised by the National Centre for Control of Rheumatic Fever and Heart Diseases (NCCRF&HD) at Sher- e Bangla Nagar.
The seminar was organised for primary health care physicians to create awareness and improve the skills of managing and preventing heart diseases among doctors of Upazila health complexes.
Professor Razia Sultana Mahamud, Director of NCCRF&HD presided over the seminar.
Quoting World Health Organisation (WHO) prediction, Professor Razia Sultana said cardiovascular disease is the major cause of death in most developed and many developing countries and coronary heart diseases would be the top of the contributors to disease burden by 2020.
Pathological process in many cardiovascular diseases starts early in the life and progresses gradually. Later on, clinical manifestation of the disease occurs due to some precipitating factors, she said.
"If we can stop, prevent and retard development of adverse pathological process by controlling various behavioural risk factors (tobacco use, dietary habits and physical activities, etc) and biochemical risk factors (lipid profile, blood sugar, etc) then we can prevent and control cardiovascular diseases to a great extent," Dr Kamrun Nahar, coordinator of the seminar said.
Professor Shah Munir Hossain, Director General of Department of Health Services said this at a seminar on prevention and management of heart diseases as the chief guest Thursday. He said in developing countries like Bangladesh, there are many patients, but service facilities are grossly inadequate.
"The world would face an impending epidemic of the disease," he told the seminar organised by the National Centre for Control of Rheumatic Fever and Heart Diseases (NCCRF&HD) at Sher- e Bangla Nagar.
The seminar was organised for primary health care physicians to create awareness and improve the skills of managing and preventing heart diseases among doctors of Upazila health complexes.
Professor Razia Sultana Mahamud, Director of NCCRF&HD presided over the seminar.
Quoting World Health Organisation (WHO) prediction, Professor Razia Sultana said cardiovascular disease is the major cause of death in most developed and many developing countries and coronary heart diseases would be the top of the contributors to disease burden by 2020.
Pathological process in many cardiovascular diseases starts early in the life and progresses gradually. Later on, clinical manifestation of the disease occurs due to some precipitating factors, she said.
"If we can stop, prevent and retard development of adverse pathological process by controlling various behavioural risk factors (tobacco use, dietary habits and physical activities, etc) and biochemical risk factors (lipid profile, blood sugar, etc) then we can prevent and control cardiovascular diseases to a great extent," Dr Kamrun Nahar, coordinator of the seminar said.