Alert: Rising Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease Among Youth

Duong Van T. (31 years old, in Quang Ninh) has a dull chest pain but thinks young and "mediocre" should not go to the doctor.Recently, when he was working on his chest pain, he broke out violently, sweated and was taken to emergency by his colleagues in a critical condition.

Sudden death at the age of 20

At Bai Chay Hospital (Quang Ninh), Mr. T. was diagnosed with a dark myocardial infarction, 39 times bradyle/minute heart rate.The patient was transferred directly to the cardiovascular intervention room to place the temporary pacemaker with the electrode in the heart chamber.The results of the coronary artery detection must be completely clogged.Doctors perform the ball intervention, putting stent re -clearing myocardial flow.

Another case of clogged by doctors of Bach Mai Hospital (Hanoi) was a 28 -year -old driver.Before admission, young people with a history of smoking for many years drink about 500 ml of alcohol for you.About 30 minutes when the patient appeared, the patient appeared to spend chest pain and were taken to emergency at the second hour of the pain.Interventional intervention immediately, doctors discovered that patients with myocardial infarction clogged.

Prof. Dr. Pham Manh Hung, Director of the Vietnam Heart Institute - Bach Mai Hospital, cardiovascular disease in the elderly, now attacks even very young people and is a big medical burden.In particular, myocardial infarction is a dangerous disease, the mortality rate is over 70%."The disease can occur suddenly while sleeping, playing or working and tends to rejuvenate. The majority of sudden death in young people is due to myocardial infarction, in a group of men who smoke,obesity or family element " - Prof. Hung warned.

In the Vietnam Heart Institute alone, each year, out of 3,500-4,000 cases of cardiovascular intervention, 15% -17% are patients under 40 years old.There are people 25-30 years old with myocardial infarction, having to intervene.In the community, the rate of young people 30-40 years old with hypertension is very high.The majority of sudden death in young people is due to myocardial infarction, most of which are among men who smoke, obese or have family factors.

According to Dr. Le Hong Tuan, Head of the Department of Cardiology - Lao Hoc, Le Van Thinh Hospital (Ho Chi Minh City), heart failure is one of the common cardiovascular diseases, estimated at 1.6 million Vietnamese population living togetherWith this disease.Metabolic diseases such as dyslipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, and obesity are increasing, causing many burdens both health and economic for society.Patients with heart failure face many dangerous complications such as arrhythmia, acute pulmonary edema, even death.

According to doctors, myocardial infarction tends to rejuvenate due to unhealthy living habits.Notably, severe cardiovascular complications such as myocardial infarction, stroke, especially the age under 40 are mostly smokers.These patients are young, but there are many risk factors such as obesity, unprocessed diabetes, smoking for many years in large quantities ...

Discover more new risks

Explaining the cause of cardiovascular disease is increasingly common in young people, cardiovascular experts think that there are many factors in life that have been shown to increase the possibility of appearing and progressing cardiovascular disease.In addition to the risk factors for lifestyle (such as smoking, pipe tobacco, sedentary lazy, obesity, blood pressure, diabetes), now find new risk factors.These are risks such as environmental pollution, stress (stress), staying up late ... "For young people, many patients have an earlier accumulation factor.Fast food, greasy food, stress work, more environmental pollution and lazy movement " - Professor Hung said.

Dr. Tuan added that it is worth mentioning that half of patients with heart failure will die after 5 years.This is really an alarming number."While people are very scared to hear cancer, the mortality rate due to heart failure is higher than the usual cancers such as breast cancer or colorectal cancer" - Dr. Tuan emphasized.

According to doctors, young people should not be subjective thinking that myocardial infarction only appears in the elderly but ignoring the signs of disease, which can easily lead to serious complications later.It is necessary to focus on regular health check -ups as well as cardiovascular examination when there are abnormal symptoms to detect and treat early, helping to prevent myocardial infarction and complications.When the patient appears signs such as pain in the chest area, shortness of breath, cold sweat, vomiting, dizziness ... should see a medical facility with cardiovascular specialist for diagnosis and intervention of stuffed treatmentTimely myocardial blood.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thi Lam, former Deputy Director of the National Institute of Nutrition, noted that the disease should be prevention from a young age, even when they were children.Because obesity can experience dangerous cardiovascular complications such as hypertension, myocardial thickness, lipid disorders ... The daily diet needs to increase the consumption of fruit and vegetables to provide more vitamins and mineralsAnd fiber ... These are all good nutrients that help prevent disease.

For patients with hypertension, diet high in fruit, vegetables and cereals is particularly recommended.In addition, it is advisable to limit the daily amount of meat consumed.If possible, plan to eat 2-3 meals without meat per week and limit red meat, do not eat more than 1 meal per week;Avoid eating fat and animal organs."Especially, you need to abandon the habit of smoking, not abuse alcohol, exercise regularly, keep weight properly, treat diseases well if available such as hypertension, diabetes, lipid disordersBlood ... " - Assoc.