India, Sept. 29 -- A heart attack can be a life-changing event, but recovery should not mark the end of the journey, it should be the beginning of a more proactive approach to heart health. For adults over 50 years, the focus must increasingly shift from treating what has happened to preventing what could happen next.

In India, people tend to develop cardiovascular disease up to a decade earlier than populations in the West and carry three to five times the relative risk. Prevention, therefore, starts with the choices made every day and the health concerns addressed along the way

After a heart attack, adhering to scheduled health check-ups and keeping the risk factors such as smoking, eating junk and remaining inactive under check, can ...