Reason for increased number of heart attacks in young people

Acute Myocardial Infarction, often known as a heart attack, is a dangerous ailment that develops when the heart muscle’s blood supply is suddenly interrupted, harming the heart muscle. The elderly were traditionally assumed to be at risk for myocardial infarction (MI). It used to be quite rare for someone under the age of 40 to get a heart attack, but now people under 40 make up one in every five heart attack patients.

Another unsettling data to highlight the problem is as follows: A heart attack is more likely to occur in your 20s or early 30s. The number of heart attacks among people in this young age range increased by 2% a year between 2000 and 2016.

Myocardial infarction (MI), which can even end in sudden death, is a complication of coronary heart disease (CHD), which can also cause additional complications. When it strikes a child, the sickness causes severe anguish, has an adverse effect on mental health and necessitates brief medical expenses that can be expensive for the patient and their family.

Common causes of MI among patients aged less than 35 can be due to:

(1) Poor Lifestyle Routine

(2) Excessive drinking and smoking

(3) Overweight

(4) Stress

(5) Hypertension, and

(6) Diabetes

Smoking, obesity, a lack of physical activity, and other factors that impose stress on the cardiovascular system have all slowly raised the prevalence of coronary heart disease in young adults. Without the heart, one of the human body’s essential organs, the body would be meaningless. When the arteries that carry oxygen-rich blood become blocked, the blood flow is interrupted or can even stop altogether, which can lead to a heart attack.

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Your primary care provider will perform clinical examinations including blood pressure, pulse rate, ECG, Echocardiography, and troponin test to confirm it is a Myocardial infarction (MI).

Therefore, a comprehensive evaluation is required to identify any potential risk factors for heart disease.

Doctors must act quickly to treat conditions like acute MI or, more generally, heart attacks. Priority coronary angioplasty and urgent coronary angioplasty are the definitive treatments for actual MI or heart attack. Rarely, some patients may require further arterial revascularization techniques.