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Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States. In the last few decades, though, with advances in the prevention and management of coronary artery disease, the occurrence of heart attacks in older adults has been declining.
Alarmingly, the occurrence of heart attacks and other forms of heart disease among younger adults (ages 20 to 50) is increasing. The increase in cardiovascular problems in this group, in 2020 and 2021, was so great that it contributed to declines in life expectancy.
So, what’s causing this disturbing trend? There’s evidence that these heart conditions are the consequences of poor food choices and lack of exercise. Here’s what to know about the signs of heart disease, what to look for, and what to do to avoid the largely preventable fallout resulting from unhealthy habits:
Heart attacks (myocardial infarctions) occur when the heart muscle is deprived of oxygen. Usually, the cause is partial or complete blockage of blood supply to some part of the heart. Symptoms in younger adults are the same as those in older adults, including chest pain or discomfort, which may radiate into the arms, jaw, neck, or back, shortness of breath, and weakness or feeling faint.
Other forms of heart disease include cardiomyopathy (thickened heart muscle), irregular, abnormal heart rhythms, and heart failure.
Research published in the American Journal of Medicine in 2019 assessed more than 2,000 young adults hospitalized for heart attacks from 2000 through 2016. The study found that 20 percent (1 in 5 people) occurred in patients 40 years-old or younger. These patients had the same risk as older adults to die from another heart attack, stroke, or other condition.
The increasing prevalence of heart disease is greater in young women than in young men. The women are more often Black, and have a history of diabetes, chronic kidney disease, high blood pressure, or a previous stroke.
Research shows that healthcare providers are prone to not taking the signs of heart disease in women as seriously as in men. They often pay less attention to managing risk factors, especially by prescribing fewer risk-reducing medications, according to a 2019 study in the journal Circulation.
The biggest risk factors for young adults
People are developing risk factors for heart disease earlier in life. Most younger adults who developed heart problems were thought to be in generally good health before their heart attacks. They were found, however, to have at least one condition which had put them at risk for a cardiac event. The greatest risk factors are:
There may be some genetic influences contributing to these conditions. Most, however, are the consequences of harmful lifestyle habits, which often start during childhood, says Eugene Yang, chair of the American College of Cardiology Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases Council. Tobacco, cocaine, marijuana, and alcohol use also increase the risk of heart attacks in younger adults.
COVID-19 has its own way of contributing to heart disease. It triggers the body’s inflammatory response, making blood thicker and stickier. Blood clots can form, clogging arteries and causing heart attacks. In 2022, The Journal of Medical Virology reported that heart attack deaths rose 14 percent during the first year of the pandemic. The greatest increase occurred in patients between the ages of 25 and 44. Why there was such a change in this age group is still unknown.
Research shows that about half of people under age 45 don’t think they could be at risk for heart disease. It can be a tough job to convince younger adults about heart disease and risk factors when they’re still focused on building careers and establishing families.
Life’s Essential 8 can save young adults
The three “P”s for reducing heart disease in younger adults are prevention, prevention, and prevention. The American Heart Association recommends following eight lifestyle habits they call “Life’s Essential 8”:
- Healthy diet
- No tobacco
- Regular exercise
- Sufficient sleep
- Weight management
- Watch cholesterol levels
- Monitor blood pressure
- Follow blood sugar levels
So, young readers, make having a primary healthcare provider one of the features of the map you’re creating to navigate life. Check in with that provider at least once a year, or as recommended for you individually. A family medicine provider can care for everyone in the family.
What`s Causing it ? That`s an easy one…THE VACCINES !
I’ll bet that when Biden says he got the jab, he really didn’t. I’ll bet none of the elites pushing this poison actually took it themselves. They just said they did.
The “leadership” was NOT required to be injected.
The jab. I had to take it due to employment requirements. I went from a BP of 128/75 a month earlier when I gave blood, to 155/90, and it just kept going up. I refused the booster, and my BP peaked at 187/110. I stayed away from the poison, and over the last three years, it has slowly gone back down. Today it was 130/78.
Oh yeah, and I got COVID anyway. That was anti-climatic to say the least.
Nattokinase and bromelain
You were very smart to make the (obvious) connection and resist the pressure to conform!
Stay well, avoid the clot shots
My, what could it be??? Anything, just anything but the jab!
Another way Covid causes heart attacks is by jamming your calcium channels open.
Then magnesium should be a counter.
Given the legion of lies spread by our healthcare leaders – Covid origin, minimal adverse effects of the Vax, oxycotin safety, etc. – we are owed much more detail in reports like this.
What month and how many youth deaths happened in 2020? How do the numbers compare to 2019, 2021 and 2022? What studies link blood thickening to Covid (as opposed to a Vax)?
When you’ve squandered all your credibility, you get way more homework.
Magnesium is not something I’d rely on to save my life. Is it even possible to keep your level consistently elevated? I bet that an effective dose would overlap with the diarrhea dose. A *dipine class calcium channel blocker is a much better idea.
You mean the spike proteins, which the mRNA jabs cause your body to produce by the billions.
Nah, it requires a Covid infection to affect the calcium channels. Spike proteins by themselves won’t do it.
Covid 19 is FAKE. See the proof at CVHOAX.COM
Stop trying to poison the well, sayanim
The increase started in 2020. The Covid shots were not here then, but Covid was. Which one do you think caused this? The one that was here or the one that wasn’t here?
“We don’t know what’s actually causing this new phenomenon, but we are absolutely sure it is not the safe & effective mRNA ‘vaccines’. In fact, we INSIST you believe that.”
The article says that the increase occurred in the first year of the pandemic, which was before the vaccine was available. Clearly, Covid was the cause of the increase.
Was that a joke?
Clot Shot, Clot Shot, Clot Shot!!! The Government doesn’t want to own up to it, but that is what happened in late 2020 & 2021. They can lie and try to blame it on other BS, but everyone with more than 2 brain cells knows what caused it!!!
Spot on.
Idk … The government-mandated jabs to fight the Wuhan flu maybe?
ya think?
100% the clot shot.
Do think it’s the Covid vaccination but it’s never mentioned.
Did you not read the article? The study was published in 2019 with data from 2000 to 2016. All of this was before the COVID pandemic and the MRNA vaccines.
It’s the vax! All the rubes who stood in line for poison better get their affairs in order!
Seriously? Everything else as a cause, except for the mrna clot shot. Never was an issue in prior years, just all of a sudden BOOM, there it is. 2020. Anyone with half a brain can look at the data. When did all these sudden young healthy folks start having issues? Around 2020? What else happened in 2020? Morticians pulling out calamari looking “things” that are clogging up veins. Sudden increase in myocarditis and pericarditis. Autoimmune diseases. Cancers. Etc. etc. etc. All shortly after a “new” mrna shot was pushed on the public. The author of this article should be ashamed at themselves.
Covid happened in 2020, which the author did mention. The vaccine wasn’t available until December 2020. The increase of heart attacks occurred prior to the vaccine.
Um, sorry, but most people didn’t get the vaccine until 2021. But heart issues increased before that in 2020 in the first year of the pandemic, which couldn’t have been possible since the vaccine wasn’t invented. The article clearly states “The Journal of Medical Virology reported that heart attack deaths rose 14 percent during the first year of the pandemic. The greatest increase occurred in patients between the ages of 25 and 44. Why there was such a change in this age group is still unknown.”
Thumb up.
The shots did not start until late in 2020.
2021 is when the clot shots started dropping people. This author like the vast majority of others offering their worthless uniformed opinions suffer from cognitive dissonance.
That’s being too polite.
Keep wishing it away….”There were three whole months between the vaxxes starting and this phenomenon!!” There’s NO WAY my vaxxes could be causing this!!” And, of course, “Doctors are BAFFLED!!”
Prove the heart attacks started before the shots. Covid is fake. CVHOAX.COM
How’s the view from the sand, Dan?
Stop trying to cover for pharma
That’s right, pretend like the data refers to a specific time of year when in fact, it is incomplete. Then what? You’re going to argue that because the data only refers to the whole year that the cause had nothing to do with the effect?
You are right! And the amount of healthy, young, super athletic people, who eat right, exercise and have every reason to thrive are dying at unseen ever before rates…. It is complete lunacy to not consider the rush job mRNA “vaccines”. The rest of the world is seeing it.
Your absolutely spot on! It’s the vaccines people!!!
As the old saying goes, “People who can get you to believe stupid things can also get you to do stupid things.”
So true!!
It is so eye opening to see these globalists ignore the mrna clot shot at the reason for heart attacks in young people and the millions of people that have “died suddenly “. The people “ignoring” the genocide jab are all in on the mass murder.
It literally quotes the source in the article about a rise in heart attacks BEFORE the vaccine
Keep your head in the sand and ignore the evidence
Covid causes myocarditis at a higher rate than the vaccine does
Full stop
Find me evidence Covid doesn’t cause myocarditis
Or pulmonary embolisms
Even in young folks
Go ahead find evidence it wasn’t a massive issue before vaccines
You cant
Speaking of half a brain….
36 athlete. Track star. Married. Father of two. Homeowner. Beloved son. Lean. Handsome. Strong. Brilliant. My beloved son. Thanks China and Fauci.
I can’t imagine what was forced upon the public in 2020 and 2021… Hmm, must be nothing. Nobody had poor diet and lack of exercise in 2019 or prior.
The obvious omission of the covid vaccine in this discussion is offensively dishonest and undermines the legitimacy of these “experts”.
Even Simon Brimmer could figure out this whodunit.
It is incredible that people are so ignorant and don’t accept reality
There are tons of proven evidence and published studies by renoun famous doctors and scientists exposing the genocide created by this chemical weapon of mass destruction.
Nobel prize winners and even Pfizer’s ex CEO have exposed the extreme danger caused by the experimental jabs.
The usual suspects control the misinformation to cover up the sad reality. Mainstream media blocks and censors those who speak up.
The usual suspects are afraid to confront the real ethical scientists, doctors and Nobel prize winners who can easily uncover this diabolical agenda to get rid of as many people as possible.
Unfortunately more shots are coming and the ignorants will keep complying.
What a bunch of BS. Many of the young people who have been “suddenly dying” over the past three years are athletes and healthy young people! This is nothing but a propaganda article paid for by the VAX advocates!!
Vaxx! The drug companies were forced to admit it. It has side effects. Yet, no one bothers to look at it further. The drug companies wanted to lock up the docs for 50 years. Why would they want to do that? Duh
The red pill is out there. Just look around. Dig a bit deeper. “Understand what’s going on.” The number of heart attacks tracks closely with the number of 20-50 year-olds vaxxed for C-19 starting in late 2020. Not a bug. It’s a feature…
I guess those elite athletes dropping dead needed to do more exercise.
I think it’s Satan doing it, and in no way possible the life saving vaccine.
SAFE AND EFFECTIVE
Holy cow…so obvious…”especially in 2020 and 2021″….mmmmm…what happened in those years? Covid shots to kids/teens/young adults who almost exclusively had no need to be vaccinated. Now they have myocarditis and are falling over dead when playing sports….