Only half of Canadians know risk factors for heart disease: report
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A new report from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada says more than 8.2 million adults have been diagnosed with high blood pressure.
Katrina Sison was on her way to a volleyball game. But something felt off.
At 38, Sison, from Pickering, Ont., never suspected her heart might be in crisis. “I got the ECHO (echocardiogram) exam, and the cardiologist told me that I would have to do surgery that day or the next day.”
St. Michael’s Hospital cardiac surgeon Dr. Subodh Verma said Sison had an ascending aortic aneurysm that was close to eight centimetres and rapidly expanding.
“This is a catastrophic problem, and it was growing fast,” Verma said. “They say time is muscle, but time was life for her — she was literally going to pass away if we had not operated on her.”
Verma holds the Canada research chair in cardiovascular surgery and is used to managing close calls and difficult surgeries on the operating table.
Tom Scherbluk, 58, from Alliston, Ont., another one of Verma’s patients, also had no clue anything was amiss with his health. Last summer, he got a wakeup call.
“I was at home, I was downstairs, just checking on some files, making sure that I was organized for the next day,” Scherbluk recalled. “Suddenly I was just out of the chair, on the floor in absolute agony.”
“We rapidly brought him to St. Michael’s Hospital, where … I operated on him again almost all night to get him through,” Verma said. “We weren’t able to close his chest for the first few days because of the bleeding.”
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