Empowering Children and Adolescents on Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease

Abstract

Emerging epidemiological evidence is compelling for the importance of childhood and adolescence in the development of risk for coronary artery disease (CAD).It is important in India as it has a huge adolescents and children population along with the existing economic, social, and health inequalities among the general population. The literature indicates that a lengthy time interval occurs between exposure to high risk factors and the development of disease, and that many such high risk exposures begin in young adolescence. well-documented trends on tobacco, physical activity, hypertension, diet, obesity present an immediate obstacle to achieving future reductions in CAD disease burden These findings underline the value of targeting children and adolescents for primary prevention efforts in health care and health education for the attainment of overall healthy population in our country.