Indians are three times more susceptible than Europeans/Caucasians to suffer from coronary heart disease. The Apollo Group of Hospitals and the Apollo Hospitals Education and Research Foundation has organised a two-day summit to discuss the development in cardiac sciences at India Habitat Centre here. The scientific summit is designed to focus on new approaches on diagnoses and management in cardiac sciences. The statistics make for grim reading. The urban Indian population is nearly three times more susceptible to suffer from coronary heart disease than the rural population. In the past 5 decades, rate of coronary diseases among the urban population has risen from 4 per cent to 11 per cent. About 12.5 per cent of adult urban males suffer from coronary artery disease, while the incidence rate of stroke is 200 per 100,000 people. The steady increase in heart disease means that every year approximately 25,000 coronary bypass operations and 12,000 PTCAs (angioplasties) are carried out. The summit would also focus on paediatric ailments, as 48,000 to 128,000 children are born each year with congenital heart diseases. The summit would offer the latest modalities to tackle heart disease and enable best practices amongst cardiac specialists across the country. Experts from across the country would attend the summit. Medical professionals would get an opportunity to enhance their knowledge on critical cardiac issues like