Cases of complicated heart ailments rise as people mistake it for gastritis

Experts say most cardiovascular diseases can be prevented by addressing behavioural risk factors—tobacco use, unhealthy diet and obesity, physical inactivity, and harmful use of alcohol.

On Sunday morning, a 47-year-old man from Maharajgunj, Kathmandu was taken unconscious to the Basundhara-based National Cardiac Centre. Doctors attending to the patient said that the man had drunk alcohol the previous evening and had complained of severe chest pain that night.