Of 98,908 deaths reg istered in 2006 in the national capital, nearly 10 per cent were due to heart ailments or heart attacks, a strong reason to believe that Delhiites need to change their lifestyle. According to the Economic Survey of Delhi, 2007-08, around 8,836 people died due to heart diseases, mainly been due to unhealthy lifestyles besides habits of eating food with high calories. Diabetes Mellitus, often dubbed as another lifestyle disease, claimed 5,296 lives. It is also associated with serious lifethreatening complications like cardiovascular diseases, end stage renal diseases, visual impairment, limb amputation, strokes and high mortality, say experts. As many as 3,510 people died after inflicting with dreaded disease tuberculosis. About two per cent of the deaths were due to tuberculosis in 2006 as compared to 2.3 per cent 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. Their number was 12,703 in 2005. 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 per cent and treatment success rate jumping to 90 per cent.