When you feel fluttering in your chest, irregular heartbeat, rapid weight gain, chest pain, fatigue, shortness of breath, fever, dizziness, and fainting, or near fainting situations – all these conditions indicate that your heart needs help.
A healthy heart is essential for holistic health because this is the essence of one’s spiritual and emotional well-being. However, we often ignore our heart when it needs care and treatment. If reports are to be believed about the burden of heart diseases in India, Cardio Vascular Diseases (CVDs) account for 17.7 million deaths and are the leading cause. The results of the Global Burden of Disease study state an age-standardized CVD death rate of 272 per 100000 populations in India, which is much higher than that of the global average of 235.
What is valvular heart disease?
Commonly called Heart disease, but when any heart valve gets damaged or diseased this is called valvular heart disease. A normal heart has four chambers and four valves. During the heartbeat, a healthy heart valve leaflets fully open and close, but with a diseased valve, it doesn’t happen. Any valve can become defective however, it is often seen that the aortic valve gets affected. Most of the deaths occurring due to valvular heart diseases are caused by aortic valve disease.
