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Cardiac Disease has become very popular problem and of the present era a new study reveals that a sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy eating habits and stress are responsible for the rising number of cardiac arrests. Largest-ever study of deaths shows heart ailments have replaced communicable diseases as the biggest killer in rural & urban India. Heart diseases have emerged as the number one killer in both urban and rural areas of the country. Preliminary results from the largest study, yet to find out the exact causes of mortality in India, have revealed that heart ailments take most lives in both urban and rural areas. About 25 per cent of deaths in the age group of 25- 69 years occur because of heart diseases. In urban areas, 32.8 per cent deaths occur because of heart ailments, while this percentage in rural The preliminary results relate to an analysis of 1,30,000 deaths that occurred between 2001 and 2003. So the sufferers should do physical activity and take precaution to improve their health and live healthy long life.

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