Yahoo News - Heart risk factors high in young Indian adults

More and more, young urban adults in India are developing obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes — suggesting that rising rates of heart disease could be in the future, a new study finds. Among 1,100 young adults from New Delhi, all three conditions became steadily more common over the 7 years of the study. And all are known to contribute to heart disease...

The findings, reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, add to a bleak outlook for Indians' heart health... An editorial published with the study agreed on the need for tobacco control and other public policies aimed at improving heart health in India. Health education is not enough because "smoking, sedentariness, and poor diet do not arise in a vacuum," write Drs. Gilles Paradis, of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and Arnaud Chiolero of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.