Indian Doctor lifts lid on why heart attacks mostly affect women

DAR ES SALAAM: A specialist in internal medicine from Ramaiah Hospital, Narendra Swamy, said heart attacks affect women more than men and stressed that more education is needed to combat this fast-growing threat.

Dr Swamy revealed this in Dar es Salaam today, August 9, 2025, when he visited the Tanzania Women Journalists Association (TAMWA).

Dr Swamy, who is also the CEO of Ramaiah Hospital in India, said that the reason why heart attacks affect women more than men is the hormones that women have.

“Let me just say that diseases affect women in their own way, according to their genetics and lifestyle,” he said.

He added, “Most women are afraid to talk openly about the diseases that affect them; Women are affected differently depending on age, childbirth, marriage, and puberty.”

Explaining the connection between cancer , Dr Swamy said that there is no specific cause that has been proven to be the cause of cancer in the world.

However, he said, there are ways to prevent the possibility of getting cancer and said, doing exercises including walking for at least 30 minutes a day.

“The second thing is to live a healthy lifestyle, do not eat too much or too little, then it is important to do health screenings whenever you can,” he said

Dr. Swamy emphasized that many diseases are due to two main reasons which are genetics and lifestyle, so the health of any community depends on good lifestyles that will help our community.

In addition to providing health advice, Ramaiah Hospital has commended TAMWA for uplifting and empowering women, providing education on the rights of women, girls and children including health and thus has provided training opportunities for members of the association.

‘We will collaborate to provide training to TAMWA members, our doctors will provide several topics related to women including menopause, puberty and other non-communicable diseases,” he said

Furthermore, Dr. Swamy emphasized that Ramaiah Hospital will provide treatment to a needy patient whom TAMWA will introduce to them to return the favor to the community for what TAMWA does.

“You are doing a great job for women, so with your management, if there is a patient in need, we will participate in helping them with treatment,” he said.

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For his part, TAMWA Director Dr. Rose Reuben thanked Ramaiah for the cooperation they have been providing to their organization, including education on various diseases that affect women of different ages.

“This cooperation is important because our community needs to understand many things that will enable them to protect themselves from diseases, because prevention is better than a cure,” he said