#Straightfromtheheart is an initiative by Fortis to raise awareness about the signs and symptoms that the heart gives before serious issues arise. By paying attention to them at the right time can help save your heart and in turn your life.

Unrecognized symptoms of an ailing heart include:

• Prolonged Acidity
• Shortness of breath while walking or climbing stair
• Sweating along with neck and jaw pain
• Nausea or vomiting, when accompanied by comorbidities like diabetes, obesity or hypertension

What to do if the above-mentioned symptoms arise?

• Meet a cardiac expert immediately and strictly follow the expert’s instructions 
• Get the CT Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring test done

Why Calcium Scoring?

• It’s a rapid non-invasive procedure that helps evaluate heart and blood vessel health.
• It helps assess the risk of heart attacks and strokes for individuals falling in the immediate risk category
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How does Calcium Scoring work?

• During the test, CT scan is dine to gauge the calcium presence in coronary artery
• Presence of calcium signifies plaque, a fatty substance, potentially causing blockage
• Blockage or artery narrowing is indicative of atherosclerosis (coronary artery disease)   

Is everything fine if there are no symptoms arise?

A sudden MI (Myocardial Infraction) can happen without any warning or prior symptoms. Individual with family history of heart diseases, with past of current tobacco users, with medical record of high cholesterol, diabetes or high blood pressure or those who are overweight or obese (BMI 25 or 30), should consider getting their calcium scoring test done following by meeting an cardiac expert. 

Get the right tuning for your heart with heart healthy habits like:

• Regular exercise (30 mins cardio 4 to 5 times a week)  
• Healthy diet 
• Maintaining work life balance 
• Manage stress
• Maintain active lifestyle
• Get 7 to 8 hours of sleep every day  

Cardiac expertise at Fortis Healthcare

• More than 600 plus heart experts across the network 
• Annually 60000+ Hearts Healed
• One of countries largest Heart & Vascular Institute 
• 1st in the country to perform high end procedures- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS) Implantation, Subcutaneous Defibrillator Implantation (S-ICD), Laser/Ultrasonic Balloon for Heavily Calcified Arteries, Impella backed Complex Angioplasty
• Stringent ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) protocol followed at all locations
• Cardiac Clinical Outcomes​ Comparable with the Best in the World*​
• *Our Cardiac Clinical Outcomes​ Compared to US National Registry Data 2013; Cleveland Clinic Outcomes Report 2014; STS Annual Report 2019; Texas Heart Institute Report 2014
• Dedicated Cath Lab & OT for cardiac procedures & emergencies 

Why choose Fortis

• 28 Hospitals across nation
• 5500+ Doctors
• 6700+ Nurses
• 3 million lives touched every year