(87.5%) and hypertension (69.3%).#The study concluded that the risky health factors that contribute to the occurrence of heart attacks among young people in this study are hypertension, high blood cholesterol, unhealthy diet, heavy smoking, stress, family history, alcohol drinking, obesity, and ...
Research shows that heart attacks are becoming more prevalent among adults younger than 50—and the outcomes are worse for women. The good news is we know how to prevent them.
"What would have been potentially large reductions in heart attacks across the board for all age groups have not completely emerged because of these offsetting risks that have really taken off," he said. "The rates of diabetes and obesity among young people have dramatically taken off over the ...
Each situation drew international headlines and raised questions in and around the sports and medical communities about heart issues among young, seemingly healthy athletes. Studies have been commissioned by leading specialists, and cardiologists around the country have tried to address concerned...
Over the next four years, there were 143 new heart attacks and deaths from heart disease and 570 new cases of cardiovascular disease among the women in the study. The researchers took into consideration qualities such as the women's age, race, blood pressure and whether or not they smoked ...
While heart attacks are often associated with older adults, this population-based case-control study examined the relationship between a wide range of AMI-related risk factors among younger adults. The researchers used data from 2,264 AMI patients from the VIRGO (Variation in Recovery: Role of Ge...
With some heart attacks, you won’t notice any symptoms (a “silent” myocardial infarction). This is more common in people who have diabetes. What does a heart attack feel like? A heart attack feels like intense chest pain, the kind where someone is squeezing your chest really hard, or...
“Young people are obviously not really supposed to die of heart attack. They’re not really supposed to have heart attacks at all,” Dr. Susan Cheng, a cardiologist at Cedars Sinai and co-author of the study, told TODAY in a segment aired Feb. 9. ...
Myocarditis has also been linked in some young people to the COVID vaccine. But the odds are far greater that this inflammation of the heart muscle will occur in those who get COVID infection itself, experts said. "We're still learning about how the virus attacks the heart," said lead ...
The new analysis found that overall, 4.1% of patients hospitalized for heart attacks also had cannabis use disorder, and the proportion nearly tripled from 2.4% in 2007 to 6.7% in 2018. When researchers broke the data into subgroups, they found the biggest increases during the decade among: ...