'Almost one-fourth of post-surgery patients go back with a heart pumping capacity of less than 35 per cent. They survive but they do so with a weakened heart. And this could have been avoided if they had identified symptoms and intervention had begun early,' says Dr Ambuj Roy, Professor of Cardiology
The three Es - eating habits, exercise and emotional stability - are just as important, Dr G Justin Paul, lead author of the study and professor at the Institute of Cardiology at Madras Medical College