Almost all heart attack victims have one of these four warning signs
Almost all people suffering from this condition heart attack having at least one previous risk factor exceeds healthy levelsnew research He found it.
One to workAccording to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers found that more than 99 percent of people who had a heart attack had heart attacks. heart attack or had high levels blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar or history tobacco to use.
The research also showed that the vast majority of heart attack victims have two or more of these risk factors, with high blood pressure being the most common.
Professor Philip Greenland, senior author of the study, said: “Our aim now is to work further to find ways to control these modifiable risk factors, rather than going after other factors that are not easily treatable and non-causal.
“We think the study shows very convincingly that there is almost a 100 percent chance of exposure to one or more suboptimal risk factors that precedes these cardiovascular outcomes.”
High blood pressure is the most common risk factor among heart attack victims
Researchers from Northwestern Medicine and Yonsei University analyzed health records spanning two decades for more than 9 million people in South Korea and 7,000 people in the United States.
The American Heart Association’s ideal cardiovascular health criteria were used in the study; These criteria identify four major risk factors: past or current tobacco use, blood pressure greater than or equal to 120/80 mmHg, cholesterol levels greater than or equal to 200 mg, and a fasting glucose level greater than or equal to 100 mg/dL.
Fasting glucose level refers to the amount of sugar, or glucose, in your blood after an overnight fast. It is often used to diagnose diabetes.
Heart attack is one of the leading causes of death in the UK
Researchers examined participants’ regular health screening data. They found that 99 percent of people who develop coronary heart disease had at least one risk factor before they had a heart attack. More than 93 percent had two or more risk factors.
The most common risk factor among participants was high blood pressure, which affects more than 95 percent of heart attack victims.
There are approximately 100,000 people admitted to hospital due to heart attack every year. A recent report from the British Heart Foundation found that coronary heart disease, which occurs when arteries narrow, is the leading cause of premature death, responsible for around 66,000 deaths each year.
