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Sunday Times of India, Mumbai, February 5, 2006 |
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29-year-old-dies of
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Mumbai: A 29-year-old man, Ashish Gyanchand Mehta,
suffered a massive heart attack while running on a treadmill
at the Talwalkars gym at Mahim on Saturday. He died soon
after. Mehta, a businessman and resident of Deepak Jyoti
Towers in Kalachowky, has been a member of the gym for
nearly two years. However, on Saturday he had been working
out after a gap of two weeks.
At around 8.15 am, Mehta started exercising on the
treadmill but soon stopped to drink water. Trouble started
when he went back on the treadmill, and he complained of
uneasiness.
Alarmed on seeing his condition, the gym trainers
asked a doctor who was also exercising in the room to check
Mehta. “The doctor advised the gym staff to immediately take
Mehta to Hinduja Hospital. So within seven to eight minutes
of the attack, he was taken to a car and rushed to the
hospital,’’ said Prashant Talwalkar, who is one of the
directors of Talwalkars, which has 14 branches in the city.
Talwalkar added that this was the first time that
such an unfortunate incident had taken place in any of their
gyms.
Mehta was brought to the casualty ward of Hinduja at 8.25
am, but he could not be saved. Police sub-inspector T K
Kumbhar of Mahim police station informed TOI that the
post-mortem report stated that Mehta had died of a heart
attack.
According to Talwalkar, it was decided by the
doctor in the gym to rush the victim to the nearest
hospital, which is what the staff did. He also stated that
the gym does not allow people suffering from diabetes, heart
problems or any other health complexities to become members.
Mehta’s relatives and family members who arrived
at the Kalachowky residence for the funeral did not wish to
immediately comment on the tragedy.
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Age is no bar when it comes to heart attacks. A person may
be under 40, but he/she may be at risk of suffering a heart
attack, said doctors. Thanks to stressed-out lifestyles and
unhealthy habits like smoking, young people are becoming
increasingly susceptible to heart diseases. “Athletes are
known to collapse on field if they have an underlying
condition like anomaly in the arteries arising out of the
heart,’’ said physician Suhas Pingle. According to Dr
Aashish Contractor of Asian Heart Institute, it is not
uncommon to come across heart patients who are in their
twenties. “Chest discomfort and shortness of breath indicate
an underlying heart condition. People should not ignore pain
in the navalto-jaw region which increases on exertion or
pain that radiates to the arms or back,’’ he said. He added
gyms could install automated external defribillators to
revive a person or recruit people trained to give CPR
(cardiac pulmonary resuscitation). TNN |
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