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Idhayam Kappom - First assessment
January 27 , 2025
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- The State government launched ‘Idhayam Kappom Thittam’ on June 27, 2023.
- It aims to provide cardiac loading doses (aspirin, clopidogrel and atorvastatin) at PHCs/HSCs to prevent deaths due to cardiac illness.
- Demographics data of the study population showed that most of the patients were men (4,248 persons).
- Almost half of the study population were aged 45 to 60 years (2,137 men and 1,148 women).
- Symptoms-wise, 76.5% (4,964) of the persons have reported to the primary care facilities with chest pain.
- This was followed by the palpitations in 10.9% and the pain was radiating to the neck/jaw/arm/shoulder in 6.6% of the patients.
- 97.7% of the patients (6,346) were alive and stable, while 2.2% (143) died and 0.1% (4) died during transit.
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