 Hello, I am Dr. Tanmay Erman, Jain, consultant international cardiologist from Manipal Hospital, Kharadi, Pune. We nowadays come across many patients presenting to hospital with heart attacks, especially youngsters who are presenting to hospital with heart attacks and cardiovascular diseases. And of course we all are aware that cardiovascular disease is one of the highest risk factors or major diseases leading to high mortality rates in overall in world. So let's try to understand that what are cardiovascular diseases and what are the major risk factors that leads to cardiovascular diseases. So cardiovascular diseases is nothing but the blockages in the arteries that supply blood to major organs of the body. Say for example heart, brain or other major organs of the body. So what are the risk factors that leads to these diseases and present the patient with cardiac diseases. Say for example diet, unhealthy diet, increased cholesterol or bad cholesterol in your body, high blood pressure, uncontrolled or undiagnosed diabetes for longer duration, in healthy or inactive lifestyle, stress, alcohol, smoking and post-COVID status. These are the major risk factors that we come across and that leads to cardiovascular diseases. So what we need to do is keep a check on all these risk factors in our day to day life or say once in a year and make sure that all these risk factors are to correct check. The most important of these are the smoking which we nowadays see in youngsters, many people do have an habit of smoking which is one of the major risk factors that can be avoided. Other is stress, everybody has stress in life but it's all about how do we manage your stress. So management of stress is very important and of course in healthy diet and lifestyle say for example, sedentary lifestyle or in unhealthy diet more in carbs and fats leads to increased cholesterol and of course cardiovascular diseases. So we need to have a low carb, low fats and more proteins and fibrosin in your diet in a day to day practice and exercise is one the important, most important thing that can keep yourself and your heart healthy and fit.