Hyper tension is a silent disease and often unnoticed in 80% of the cases. Whenever a patient gets nasal bleed, giddiness, blackout or excessive sweating on forehead and a severe headache and goes for a BP checkup, it is generally found that the BP is high.  The normal Blood Pressure as per WHO is 115/75 at present and was 120/80 earlier. If the Blood Pressure is above 140/90, the blood pressure medication is indicated. At [...]

IPC aims to prevent heart attack and reverse heart disease by helping people to avoid a surgery. Obesity is the most important risk factor that causes cardiac ailments. In Indians, we do not find gross obesity but abdominal obesity is very common. Abdominal obesity is the fats that accumulate in the stomach area which is also the direct risk factor for heart ailments. IPC has many weight loss programs to offer to patients as we [...]

Advancements in medical technology have widened the scope for more innovative and effective treatment for heart problems. You can prevent 80% of heart attacks and avoid Bypass surgeries with a simple and dedicated IPC preventive cardiology program. IPC strongly believes in “Prevention is better than cure”. IPC preventive cardiology program is a miracle and a boon to the patients with cardiac problems. The preventive cardiology program in India is introduced by the world renowned preventive [...]

IPC Heart Care‘s main mission is to prevent people from heart attacks and also to provide non invasive treatments for those who had already experienced heart attacks. It is observed in many situations that heart problems aggravate in people due to financial stress. While a patient undergoes EECP treatment and cardiac rehab program at IPC Heart Care, we try to analyse the patients and give them the necessary guidelines. To prevent from financial stress, it [...]

Emotional Stress Management It is very important to balance emotions to keep yourselves healthy. Emotions are two types like positive emotions and negative emotions. When you are happy, Opioids hormones release in body that makes you feel the sense of fulfilment and satisfaction. Your heart rate normalizes and relaxes in peace. In the person experiencing positive emotions most of times, endocrine glands will regulate and function normally. Negative emotions like anger, worry, sadness, despair and [...]

Married Couple Stress Management Tips Marriage is union of body, mind and soul. It is important that a husband and wife surrender to each other totally.  We generally find that one spouse is dominating and the other is submissive. We try not to be gender biased to understand the two sides of the coins. There are many heart patients who face misunderstanding with spouse due to mismatch in expectations from partners and communication gaps between [...]

Stress is the main cause for increasing blood pressures, heart rate and sugar levels and the most important cause for heart attack. IPC Heart Care is the pioneer in providing non invasive treatments like EECP and preventing people from undergoing bypass surgeries and angioplasty with almost 90% success rate.  In Heart patients, there is a remarkable factor of emotional stress. In more clear terms they are emotionally very sensitive and specifically feel depressed of certain [...]

Marital stress is not only related to the conflicts between a husband and wife, it can also be stress related to the problems of unmarried people. Likewise At IPC Heart Care, we had a patient with cardiac disease, who had frequent health problems though he followed medication regularly. He was always worried about his daughter marriage as the girl has rejected more than 40 matches. The patient was facing a lot of agony related to [...]

In the article titled ‘Bypass surgery can be avoided in many cases’ published in Hindu News Paper. Dr. Pratiksha G. Gandhi, Founder, Institute of Preventive Cardiology (IPC) at Mumbai has stressed the need for non-invasive treatments like EECP and the importance of low fat vegetarian diet, regular exercise, yoga and counseling for stress management as proven and preventive factors for staying healthy at heart. She regrets the commercialization that crept into Medical field and reflects [...]

Dr. Pratiksha G Gandhi, founder & chairperson of IPC Heart enlightens heart patients regarding the importance of stress management and how yoga and meditation helps to control it. At IPC Heart care, we offer advanced allopathic medical management. We focus on accurate diagnosis, non-invasive treatments like EECP, Life style Management programs. Whenever we talk of life style management, we should understand the need of taking proper diet, doing exercise and stress management. Everybody experiences stress [...]