There are a few possible reasons behind this trend.
—were increasingly common in young patients who had heart attacks. Specifically, 71 percent of young women with heart attacks in the study had a history of high blood pressure and 39 percent had a history of diabetes. For young men who had heart attacks, the numbers were 64 percent and 26 percent, respectively.
Both high blood pressure and diabetes have been linked to obesity, which could be another factor in the increase in heart attacks in young people, study coauthor Melissa Caughey, Ph.D., a cardiovascular epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, tells SELF. “Women under 54 have a higher prevalence of obesity and diabetes than men of the same age group, and the trend continues to rise,” she points out.
Obviously, not everyone with diabetes or high blood pressure also has obesity—and patients with those risk factors aren't necessarily being identified and treated ahead of time, Dr. Weinberg says. “Even when women with these conditions are identified, they’re not being aggressively treated or having interventional therapy,” she says. “As a result, their prognosis isn’t as good as those of men.”—may also play a role, Johanna Contreras, M.D.
Finally, if you have a family history of heart disease, tell your doctor about it so they can monitor your risk. "Having a family risk of heart disease makes all of this advice even more important," Dr. Goff says. Still, don’t assume that you’re doomed to have a heart attack if it seems to run in your family. “Genetics and family history doesn’t determine everything,” Caughey says. “There are many steps you can take, such as adopting a healthy lifestyle, that can lower your risk even if you have a family history of heart disease.”
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