Looks Can Be Deceiving: The Hidden Warning Signs of Heart Disease

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Not all heart patients look sick and that’s exactly what makes heart disease so dangerous.   CEO and Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at IJN Prof Datuk Dr Mohd Ezani Md Taib reminds us that many young, seemingly healthy individuals suffer heart attacks or sudden cardiac arrest because the warning signs were already there, just subtle and often ignored.  But lifestyle remains the biggest area where change is possible.   Watch the full episode here:  FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/reel/711600778017215  YOUTUBE:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UECLn7wtqwg&t=417s  X: https://x.com/sinardailymy/status/1981963942252679188/video/1  PORTAL: https://www.sinardaily.my/article/731193/videos/podcast/life-style-podcast-matters-of-the-heart-part-2-lessons-from-a-heart-surgeons-journey  #LifeStylePodcast #SinarDaily #HeartHealth #KnowTheSigns #CardiacAwareness #SuddenCardiacArrest #IJN #MalaysiaHealthcare

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00:00You mentioned about why they look healthy but they get a heart attack, right?

00:04So, well looks can be deceiving as you know, right?

00:08We often hear of people who look healthy and most of them they are young

00:14but suddenly they suffer a heart attack or probably sudden cardiac arrest.

00:18So maybe what are the early warning signs that sometimes it's already there or subtle

00:24but they tend to ignore it so maybe you could share in terms of their red flag sign and symptoms

00:28that the patient should not ignore?

00:30I think yes because I've been with this profession for the last more than 30 years

00:36and I've seen the changes that has happened both from the patient perspective

00:41and from the technology perspective.

00:43And I think first of all with regards to younger patients getting heart disease, yes I think that's the truth.

00:50The reason, well you mentioned about why they look healthy but they get a heart attack, right?

00:57So, well looks can be deceiving as you know, right?

01:01So the thing is most important is what do they have with them in terms of both genetics and diseases, right?

01:10So, and lifestyle.

01:12So what you cannot avoid is your genetics.

01:15So if your genes, you carry genes that have got high risk of coronary disease or heart disease,

01:20then unfortunately you will have it, yeah?

01:23Secondly, males are more prone than females, right?

01:26So you're lucky, right?

01:28So then that's the one that you can change.

01:30But the one you can change would be those that you, lifestyle.

01:35No exercise, you should exercise, smoking can stop smoking, food intake that you can cut down, right?

01:41Then the diseases itself.

01:43So if unfortunately you have diabetes or hypertension or high cholesterolemia,

01:49then you should manage that and make sure that you take care of it well.

01:54So like in IGN, we have a new clinic that goes for reducing risk factors, right?

02:00So if you have diabetes, the idea is to prevent getting complication of diabetes.

02:04So the red flags are those factors.

02:07If you have those issues, then you should be cutting them one by one.

02:12So if you're smoking, stop smoking, you're not exercising, exercise and so on.

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