Dr. Aashish Contractor and John Abraham at the event

Heart attack happens to be one of the most common causes of death in recent times. Irrespective of age, people seem to fall prey to chronic heart ailments, many of which even turn out to be fatal. Also, most of the time, a hard-to-treat heart failure becomes a prominent cause of accidental death. The causes of heart attack or heart diseases are many, like, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, lack of exercise, irregular diet, inadequate sleep, to name a few.

Dr. Aashish Contractor and John Abraham at the event

As this point of time, when a majority of the country’s population are at the risk of heart attack and cardiovascular diseases, Dr. Aashish Contractor launched a book titled 'The Heart Truth'. The book explicitly talks about facts related to heart diseases as well as diarrhea. It also highlights how diarrhea and heart diseases emerged as major causes of death among women in India.