Heart attacks are no longer always dramatic, movie-style events. In India, doctors are increasingly seeing patients, sometimes in their 30s, who arrive at the hospital after dismissing days of seemingly minor discomforts as acidity, muscle strain, or fatigue. These so-called “silent" heart attacks are particularly dangerous because the damage to the heart may already be significant by the time the patient recognizes the problem.

Dr. Harshal Ingle, Consultant, Interventional Cardiology, Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune, explains, “Increasingly, we are finding that heart attacks in India don’t present the way most people expect. Lifestyle factors like smoking, long work hours, erratic eating patterns, and stress are making this problem worse. Indians are genetically more predisposed to heart disease,

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