Heart is the most important organ in the human body that needs a special care for avoiding cardiovascular diseases and heart attacks. Heart pumps blood through the blood vessels with repeated action of rhythmic contractions. In India, most of the women face heart problems at their early age of crossing 30 + years. The number of heart patients in the women category is just growing to heights.  It’s high time for people to start realizing [...]

Diet is the primary factor that correlates with the health of the human body directly or indirectly.  Consuming proper nutritious food is a pre requisite for anybody irrespective of age and gender. Food plays an important role in maintaining the energy levels and improves the immunity power in the body. Health is the major factor for happiness for any individual either young or old. If all the parts of human body are functioning in perfect [...]

Heart attack is the major killer  for most of the people in India due to many health complications they face like high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol levels and highly stressed irregular lifestyle. A mere chest pain is not the only indicative of heart attack, there are many atypical symptoms that can also be a symptom for heart attack. Unusual signs of heart attack: 1. Chest Discomfort: The major symptom for heart attack is feeling [...]

Dr.Pratiksha G Gandhi, MBBS, MD, India’s first Woman Preventive Cardiologist, Founder & Chairperson of IPC Heart Care Centre has received “Mother Teresa Award” for her excellence in Non-Invasive Cardiac Treatment.  The event was organized by Awami Rai weekly news paper on 8th March 2012. She is a multi – faceted young Preventive Cardiologist of Mumbai specialized in offering Non-Invasive Treatment for Heart patients like EECP. IPC India strives to enlighten heart patients regarding the importance [...]

Stay fit and fine/hale and healthy with regular exercise. Note: Any exercise chosen by heart patients needs to be strictly followed under a supervision of physician. Following are few Generic suggestions. Exercise is the most important aspect of life for staying healthy and being active for all human being irrespective of age and gender. It helps and improves the functioning of the whole body in a much better way. The activity of exercise enhances the [...]

Diabetes is one of the most important risk factors for heart problems. India is the diabetes capital of the whole world with more than 32 million diabetic cases. So there is an impending epidemic of the heart ailment coming up. The main mission of IPC is to prevent heart attacks and save people from surgeries. We have Diabetes Reversal Program for effectively controlling the diabetes so that diabetic patients do not become heart patients. It [...]

High levels of cholesterol is the most important risk factors for causing blockages in the arteries of the heart. At IPC, measuring lipid profile is one of the most important tests which we conduct in our cardiac checkup. Routinely everybody knows that lipid profile consists of HDL, LDL and Triglycerides. But nowadays, we see lot of young people also getting blockages in the arteries of the heart. There are advanced lipid level tests which measure [...]

At IPC, we offer various kinds of cardiac health checkups right from the basic tests to advance tests. We recommend it for the people above the age group of 30 years and also for people below 30 years who are in high risk categories. This is because more than 70% of people get heart attacks as a first symptom.  We need not have to get cardiac health check when the real situation arises. Sometimes people [...]

At IPC we offer non-surgical cardiac treatments like EECP and ACT. Though EECP constitutes major bulk of our treatments, we also offer ACT treatments in selected cases. ACT stands for Artery Clearance Therapy which is a treatment for blocked arteries. Many times patients keep asking us questions referring to their blockage percentage as 80%, 90% and 100% and if we can ever remove their blockages. We have done research studies and repeat angiographies. Total removal [...]

Dr. Pratiksha G Gandhi has more than 2000 articles published in newspapers and magazines like The Times of India, Mumbai Mirror, DNA, Indian Express, Hindustan Times, The Economic Times, Maharashtra Times, Loksatta, Hitvada, Business Today, Business India, Cosmopolitan, Women’s Era, Chitralekha, Chatura, Lokprabha etc. She has also featured in all popular TV Channels like CNBC, Star TV, Zee etc She has written six books on preventive cardiology, yoga and healthy heart diet. One of the [...]