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Heart and Brain Health
We often hear words like heart attack, brain stroke, cardiac arrest or simply “BP problem”. We understand that something serious has happened. But what exactly happened inside the body? How would we recognise the warning signs? And what should someone do?
This series explores these questions step by step, beginning with emergencies and gradually moving into their underlying mechanisms, risk factors, medical investigations, prevention and recovery.
Part 1 is available in English, हिन्दी, ଓଡ଼ିଆ, తెలుగు. The remaining articles are planned.
The series is educational and does not replace medical assessment or emergency care.
The nine-part series
- Heart Attack, Stroke and Cardiac Arrest: What Do These Words Mean? A personal introduction explaining three commonly confused emergencies and why the distinctions matter.
- Heart Attack: What Actually Happens Inside the Heart? Coronary blood supply, plaque disruption, symptoms, emergency assessment and diagnostic limitations.
- Brain Stroke: What Actually Happens Inside the Brain? Blocked versus bleeding blood vessels, stroke recognition, transient ischaemic attacks and why timely assessment matters.
- Cardiac Arrest: What Can a Bystander Do? Recognising adult cardiac arrest, understanding CPR and AEDs, and responding before professional help arrives.
- The Risks That Often Give No Warning Blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, atrial fibrillation and other conditions that can increase cardiovascular or stroke risk.
- Can Someone Look Healthy and Still Be at Risk? Fitness, family history, inherited susceptibility, hidden disease and the limits of reassuring results.
- What Medical Tests Can - and Cannot - Tell Us Understanding ECG, troponin, brain imaging and other investigations without confusing test results with complete diagnoses.
- Prevention: What Actually Reduces Risk? Evidence-backed interventions, realistic expectations and common claims that deserve closer examination.
- Life After a Heart Attack or Stroke Recovery, rehabilitation, long-term care, family support and preventing further events.
Other Medical Emergencies
Future series · Planned
Pulmonary embolism, aortic dissection, serious heart rhythm disturbances, brain haemorrhage, sepsis, anaphylaxis and seizures are future topics. This series will follow the foundational Heart and Brain Health articles, with its own clinical evidence and safety reviews. No publication dates are set.
Neurodiversity
A separate educational track will explore autism, ADHD and dyslexia, including learning, daily life, accommodations, support, scientific understanding and lived experiences. These articles will follow their own editorial and research development process.
Not every article about the brain belongs to this track. Stroke, seizures, dementia and other neurological conditions can have their own medical education pathways; neurodiversity is not a catch-all category for neurological illness.
Read our editorial standards for how we approach evidence and review.