Young adults are increasingly at risk for heart disease—but it’s not always taken seriously
Mounting evidence shows that more young adults are experiencing heart problems compared to decades past, and that worsening lifestyle habits—namely, poor diet and lack of exercise—are to blame. And some research suggests that COVID infections are adding insult to injury.
Because cardiac arrest can be caused by several conditions—like cardiomyopathy , heart failure, arrhythmias , and yes, heart attacks—it’s difficult for doctors to study and determine whether it’s becoming more common in young adults. —and that the proportion of this group has been increasing by 2 percent each year for the last decade., also found that people ages 40 or younger who have had a heart attack are just as likely as older adults to die from another heart attack, stroke, or other reason.
And though heart attacks typically strike men more often than women, recent studies have suggested that more younger women are experiencing heart attacks compared to younger men—and that their outcomes are worse.heart attack hospitalizations among people ages 35 to 54
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