‘You’ve got a serious problem; it’s related to your cardiac movements. The time is not far, hence, you must and must strictly follow the medications that I’m prescribing you. Even by mistake do not waver in having them…’ these are the words (though not exact), which the doctors tell the ‘patients’, but irony lies in the fact that the so called patient actually is free from any such disease, forget about the heart problems. Is the traditional way of diagnosing heart problem is saturated with flaws? The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has postulated that the traditional way of diagnosing heart problem is saturated with flaws and hence, it completely rejects the notion that there are 1.5 million people in danger of the disease. The study revealed that the risk of heart disease is lower in white middle aged men than in the past but the ratio of the same disease has seen an escalating graph for the women’s section. One in three women in their 60s are at risk of heart disease, a figure previously thought to be one in four. In order to prove this, scholars did a survey on nearly 1.28 million people to diagnose any heart relate problems. This detection was done on the basis of ‘smoking, blood pressure and ‘good’ and ‘bad’ cholesterol, along with age and sex’. Since, it’s also the conventional way of identifying the problem so the researchers included other factors like, ‘social deprivation, genetic factors and weight’. Formerly, it was taken that nearly 4.7 million people are suffering from heart related problems but this study reduced the figures to 3.2 million. Does that mean that treatment is being given to the people who are actually not in need of it? As Julia Hippisley-Cox, lead author of the study says, We are potentially missing the right people for treatment. Now the rhetorical question emerges, who is responsible for all this? Is the inefficiency of doctors to be blamed or are the drug companies to be targeted as they create hype regarding diseases, which often lead doctors to over prescribe certain set of medicines. Image