By Nahir Abdel Nabi Saturday, July 29, 2023 10:00 AM New research shows that young age does not confer immunity against heart diseaseAnd that there is a remarkable increase in the number of heart attacks that affect ages under the age of forty in the United States of America.
And according to what was mentioned by the health website, Doctor Luke Lavin, who specializes in preventing heart disease, explains the reason behind this increase, the relationship between lifestyle and the risk of heart disease:
Can a person in his twenties have a heart attack?
However, this condition was not as common as it is today, as it was unusual to encounter someone suffering from chest pain due to a heart attack, and “a condition that is rarely discussed or seen in the medical literature,” says Dr. Levine.
The rise in heart attack rates at younger ages may be due to lifestyle changes, such as:
Spending more time in front of a computer screen.
Increase your intake of ultra-processed foods and fast foods.
Decreased physical and physical activity (particularly cardiac).
“These bad habits today start from early childhood, which calls for the need to pay attention to how important prevention and modification is,” Lavigne comments.
Causes of early heart attacks:
The risk factors for a heart attack impose themselves on the health of the patient, regardless of his age, meaning that anxiety about a heart attack is not limited to the elderly.
Lavigne adds, “It is important to give an objective and individual tone when talking about young men and women having a heart attack, as a person’s young age does not give him an excuse to exclude him from this discussion.”
Among the reasons for the increased risk of heart attacks at an early age:
1- Type 2 diabetes:
It’s not unusual to find type 2 diabetes on this list, as it is one of the most important risk factors for heart disease
People with diabetes have a double risk of heart disease, as the disease causes disorders that begin at an early age, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The reason is due to the high concentration of blood sugar caused by diabetes, which leads to damage to the blood vessels and nerves that feed the heart. This may cause the development of coronary heart disease, which impedes blood flow to the heart.
In addition, the increased susceptibility of patients with diabetes to other disorders that in turn increase the risk of heart attacks, such as obesity and high blood pressure.
2- Tobacco consumption
Cigarette smoke contains a mixture of more than 7,000 chemicals that, when inhaled, wreak havoc throughout the body, including the heart.
Smoking alters the chemical composition of the blood, which can lead to the buildup of waxy plaques inside the arteries that impede blood flow in the blood vessels and increase the risk of blockages responsible for heart attacks and strokes.
However, one in five deaths from cardiovascular disease is attributed to cigarette smoking.
3- Drug abuse
The researchers found a significant increase in the incidence of substance abuse among younger heart attackers, including marijuana and cocaine use, with an equal incidence of other risk factors between the elderly and the young.
4- Family history
Genetics plays an important role in a person’s susceptibility to having a heart attack at an early age. The risk of genetic factors in our case is defined as having a first-degree male relative (such as father, brother, and son) who had a heart attack or stroke before the age of fifty-five, or a female relative (such as a mother, sister, and daughter) before the age of sixty-five.
Tips for preventing heart attacks:
The best way to prevent a heart attack is to limit the development of risk factors before they become a problem and the earlier you respond, the better the outcome.
This is a group of changes in social and environmental activities that affect heart health. Among them:
Increase exercise: 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise per week is enough to lower your risk of heart disease, according to the American Heart Association.
Maintain a healthy weight: Losing five pounds (equivalent to 2.3 kilograms) will make a significant difference in your blood pressure and blood cholesterol concentration. The most important goal is to maintain a BMI between 20 and 25.
Eat nutritious food: A heart-healthy diet will benefit the body in many ways, and the diet is easy to follow because it includes many delicious options.
Control stress and blood pressure: Learning how to cope with stress will benefit heart health.
-Quit Smoking.
Knowing the family history of heart disease: Genetic factors cannot be changed, but knowing them is the first step to taking the necessary measures to reduce their potential negative repercussions on heart health.
Finally, it is important to understand and correct heart attack risk factors, such as high blood pressure, waist circumference, and an unhealthy BMI.
Many young men still do not take risk factors seriously. But we must be serious and aggressive about modifying risk factors, or the rate of heart attacks at young ages will continue to rise.
2023-07-29 07:00:00
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