ahmedabad hypertension and obesity are risk factors causing cardiac diseases and nearly 30 of the population may be living obliviously with these risks according to a recent study city cardiologists dr sunil thanvi and dr parth thakkar had recently presented their research titled identifying the prevalence of undiagnosed cardiovascular disease risk factors in healthy indians at an esc preventive cardiology event dr thanvi said that they collected datasets of 5000 patients went to hospital for various ailments the data included details such as addiction lifestyle body mass index bmi and blood pressure a majority of the patients were from gujarat particularly ahmedabad the most prevalent risk factor was found to be hypertension at 73 followed by high bmi at 71 about onefourth had undiagnosed prediabetes whereas more than a third had either high bad cholesterol ldl or low good cholesterol hdl he said while intervention is important after diagnosis of cardiovascular disease cvd our aim should be prevention right at its root with timely diagnosis he added