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Gender	Male
Industry	Engineering
Location	MORRISVILLE, NC, United States
Introduction	Why did you start running? I am an Indian, and in India physical activities are 6% compared to 21% for westerners. There is one important risk factor which I could not control: my South Asian ancestry. Heart disease is the leading killer of adults nationwide, our bodies develop the disease up to a decade earlier. Indians tend to develop high blood pressure, high triglycerides, abnormal cholesterol and Type 2 diabetes at lower body weights than other groups. Indian men are also prone to high levels of coronary artery calcium, a marker of atherosclerosis that can be an early harbinger of future heart attacks and stroke. My first circle of family have already gone through all these diseases, so that is one of the motivational factors for me, I don’t want to pass on all this to my next generation. I realized this very late, started running in mid 2012.