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.
An ACC article from 2019 notes that the incidence of heart attacks is rising in those under 40. “The idea that you have to be a certain age to have a heart attack is not exactly true,” Dr. Cheng said. “There are cases of heart attack in adults of all ages. It depends on many...
The frequency of coronary heart disease in young Indians is 15-18% higher than in any other population group globally and also includes Indians residing outside India. Heart attacks in young Indians are 3-4 times higher. The annual number of deaths from CVD in India increased from 2.26 mil...
• The research presented at the 2019 conference of the American College of Cardiology, spotlights an alarming trend: a rising incidence of heart attacks in younger adults. The study was the first to compare “young” heart attack survivors (41 to 50 years old) to “very young” survivo...
heart failure diagnoses, reflected in the dataset from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on which the analysis was based. More people are surviving heart attacks now, so more people are living long enough to develop heart failure, which could explain higher prevalence in recent years...
List of famous people who died of cardiac arrest, including photos, birthdates, professions, and other information. These celebrities who died of heart attacks are listed alphabetically and include the famous cardiac arrest victims’ hometown and biographical info about them when available. Examples...
Cannabis use disorder may be linked to growing number of heart attacks in younger adultsby Karen Schmidt At a time of increasing legalization of marijuana, a growing number of people under 50 diagnosed with cannabis use disorder were later hospitalized for a heart attack, new research has found....
heart attacks in their forties if they get Type 2 diabetes, and many of them will,' said Professor Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation.He said a current decline in the numbers of heart attacks could be the 'lull before the storm' because of the growth in obesity ...
Heart attacks among adults younger than 50 years of age are on the rise. In fact, the proportion of very young people has been increasing, rising by 2 percent each year for the last 10 years, according to a team of investigators a Brigham and Women's Hospital who are focused on studying...
"It's pleasing to see, despite rising obesity, a fairly sharp fall in heart attacks among these younger men, and also their reduced mortality from cardiovascular diseases," he continues. Heart-failure cases within 21 years of enlistment rose, according to the study, by 69%—from 0.49 per 1...