Out of a total of 98,908 deaths registered in 2006 in the national Capital, nearly 10 percent were due to heart ailments or heart attacks, a strong indication that Delhiites need to change their lifestyle. According to Economic Survey of Delhi, 2007-08, around 8836 people died due to heart diseases, mainly due to unhealthy lifestyles besides eating high calorie food. Diabetes Mellitus, often dubbed as another lifestyle disease, claimed 5296 lives. It is also associated with serious life-threatening complications like cardiovascular diseases, end stage renal diseases, visual impairment, limb amputation, strokes and high mortality, say experts. As many as 3510 people died after being inflicted with tuberculosis. About two percent of the deaths were due to tuberculosis in 2006 as compared to 2.3 percent in 2005. This despite various programmes launched by the government to eliminate the dreaded disease. In 2006, there were 13,719 cases of newly infected TB patients. According to the health department's data, since 1993, DOTS has been pilot tested and the results were amazing with death rate coming down to five percent and treatment success rate jumping to 90 percent. 2060 people died due to cancer while 1534 succumbed to injuries in hospitals following road accidents. A total of 2000 people became victim to anaemia, accidental burns, meningitis, measles and cholera during 2006, according to the survey. PTI