Kozhikode: Kerala Heart Care Society and National Hospital, Kozhikode, ARE organising a meeting of patients with multi-vessel coronary diseases, who have been successfully treated by therapeutic lifestyle changes, on November 26.
K. Kunhali, founder president of the society, told the media here on Thursday that bypass surgery, angioplasty, placing of stent used to be the medical treatment prescribed for those diagnosed with coronary artery disease. Of late, the society had been following the therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC) method and only those who fail to respond satisfactorily to lifestyle changes and intense medical therapy were sent to surgery. The treatment includes right type of diet to reverse coronary atherosclerosis, proper exercise, yoga, counselling and optimum medical treatment. Kadannappally Ramachandran, Minister for Ports, would inaugurate the meeting at Nalanda Auditorium at 9.30 a.m. M.K. Raghavan and P.K. Kunhalikkutty, MPs, would be present, among others.