HealthAt a World Heart Day seminar of the National Heart Foundation, experts called for quick rules under the Tobacco Control Act 2026, budget for managing high blood pressure and diabetes in primary care, and cutting salt in food in line with WHO advice.
At a World Heart Day roundtable, specialists said about 80 per cent of heart disease is preventable but treatment in Bangladesh remains costly and concentrated in Dhaka.
A World Heart Day webinar heard that 52 per cent of about 283,800 heart-disease deaths in Bangladesh in 2024 were linked to hypertension, while NCDs get just 4.2 per cent of the health budget.
HealthAhead of World Heart Day, Apollo Kolkata cardiologist Udayshankar Das says inherited risk combined with inactivity, obesity, tobacco and undiagnosed sleep apnoea is driving heart disease among young adults.
