The hearts of young smokers are more likely to have heart attacks
The risk of smoking on the heart is increased by those who are under the age of five times than non-smokers.
Middle East Online
Paris - Although the risk of smoking on the heart is known, a recent study shows that this applies to a particular picture of smokers under 40 years of age, who are five times more likely than non-smokers to risk a non-fatal heart attack.
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| The hearts of young smokers are more likely to have heart attacks |
Finland's epidemiologist Marco Mahonen and his colleagues, whose findings are published Tuesday in the British magazine Tobacco Control, warned.
The scientists adopted the findings of the monika study of cardiovascular disease between 1985 and 1995 under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO), which included 7.2 million people in 21 countries. The study, "Monica", allowed more than 22,000 heart attacks to be found among 18,762 men and 4,047 women between the ages of 35 and 39.
Smokers accounted for 80 percent of those who had a heart attack.
Men aged 35-39 years were five times more likely than non-smokers to have a heart attack, while women increased by 5.3 times, the study found.
According to the study, smoking is the cause of about two-thirds (65%) non-fatal heart attacks in men aged 35-39 years and more than half (55%) in women of the same age group.
However, the authors of the study do not rule out that "genetic diseases" play a role in this regard, including the genetic imbalance known as "turning factor 5 Leiden" known to lead to blockage in the arteries.
"It is possible that the interaction between smoking and other factors - such as genetic disorders - has a significant role in the development of these heart attacks in young people," they wrote, adding that "many other factors may not be easy to address. Stop smoking may be the key to prevention. "
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