World Heart Day 2025, Sept. 29 -- A fit man, who ran 5 km daily, followed proper sleep hygiene, and maintained a clean diet, revealed that he had to undergo angioplasty and 11 years later, had to get two stents placed in his heart, all due to a silent new killer increasingly impacting young professionals.

In a viral LinkedIn post on World Heart Day, Karthik Srinivasan, a Communications strategy consultant, shared that he has been running 5 km regularly, sleeping predictably early and on time, and is generally conscious about what he consumes, especially after his angiogram in 2011. "And yet, almost 15 years later, two blocks!"

One question has haunted Srinivasan ever since he discovered the blocks in his heart: "Why me?"

In the viral p...