More people suffer and die from heart diseases than from any other ailment.
There are many forms of heart diseases, some more serious than others and may cause deaths quite quickly while others linger for years. The majority of deaths from heart diseases occur in persons above sixty-five years of age. Encouraging Features Progress is being made in the prevention and even in the treatment of heart disease, resulting in a far less hopeless outlook. Successes in heart surgery are now saving thousands of lives per year. Many congenital defects of the heart can be remedied by surgery so that patients thus afflicted and treated can look forward to a normal life span.