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Health problem. South Asians are at Men and Women at younger ages, Dr. Vemuri S. Murthy, an Ad- of Resuscitation education, training
a four-times greater risk of heart dis- and as a result, both morbidity and junct Faculty in the Department of and research in USA and India. His
ease than their western counterparts mortality are higher among them Emergency Medicine @ The Univer- current work involves Cardiac Arrest
and have a greater chance of having compared to any other ethnic group. sity of Illinois College of Medicine, Registries and Cardiac Health-pro-
a heart attack before 50 years of age. They tend to develop heart disease Chicago, Illinois, USA and Visiting moting Projects with Indo-US col-
Heart attacks strike South Asian ten years earlier than other groups. Professor in India, is an Advocate laborations.

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