PANAJI: If a decade ago the doctor mostly saw a sixty plus heart disease, today it was not uncommon to see the incident of acute myocardial infarction under 50.
Doctors, sometimes, also saw heart patients aged 18 and 19 years, despite such a few cases .
While the conventional bad nature is blamed for heart disease, adolescents in their twenties and thirties currently face the risk of heart disease due to lifestyles, stress, and settled diets.
In the past seven and the last half, Goa Medical College (GMC) has treated around 7,400 heart patients.
Of these, 4.1% less than 40 years and 21% below 50.
The most difficult part for a doctor who cared for a young patient’s heart attack is to convince parents, who fail to understand how their healthy children can develop disease.
Seriously like a heart attack so young.
Last week, when a 26-year-old man, a driver by the profession, was rushed to the hospital with acute chest pain, which was then diagnosed as a major heart attack, his parents had difficulty in accepting reality, the consultant’s cardiologists said in Victor.
Dr.
Vinayaga Pandian Hospital.
“The old man continued to say he was only 26.
They thought a ball had hit him while playing cricket.
It wasn’t like that.
He suffered a heart attack, and his condition was very bad so he could not walk when he was taken to the hospital.
He was sent home after Care, “Pandian said.
Professor and Head of the Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Department at GMC, Dr Shirish Borkar, said that since January 2020, he had carried out 420 bypass operations, and that a 21-year-old man had become his youngest case in the state.
Borkar said that of the total operations carried out, 14% in patients under 45 years, while 33% were in the 20-50 bracket.
Compared to the Asian population in the same age group, the number of young people with heart disease in Goa, Borkar said, looked high, even though the definitive numbers were not available.
He, however, felt that the high diabetes incident among Goan’s population could be one of the reasons why more people in their youth were detected with heart condition, with some even needing bypass surgery.
“In some cases, diabetes is detected after a patient is taken to the hospital with the heart condition.
Diabetes does not occur suddenly but detects suddenly with patients who do not carry out routine checks,” Borrow said.
Head of the cardiology department at GMC, Dr.
Guruprasad rose to say that Goa might see more cases of heart disease because there was better health care.
More importantly, free care.
Plus, the state runs a STEMI program in 18 health centers, where patients suspected of suffering from heart disease can access treatment immediately.
In GMC, he said, their youngest male patients were 18 years old and 19 years old while the age of 33 was the youngest female patient who underwent a heart procedure.
As many as 40 patients in the age group 20 to 29 received treatment for acute myocardial infarction in the past seven and a half years.
Overall, he said, the percentage of men suffering from heart disease in the state has been higher than women.
A consultant’s cardiologist at Manipal Hospital Dr.
Jyoti Kusnur said that young people had a tendency due to heart condition because their work was full of pressure and overall lifestyle.
They also tend to delay seeking treatment by ignoring symptoms.
“Suppose a 27-year-old man develops chest pain, he tends to confuse that thought is acidity.
The following is a sudden heart stop.
We heard a young man who collapsed in the office or house suddenly and was taken to the hospital.
That’s because of young people Do not expect they will have heart disease while if a 50-year-old man has chest pain, he tends to seek medical help immediately, “Kusnur said.
He said that it did not surprise him that 25-year-old children present with heart disease.
His youngest patient was a 19-year-old girl who was a chain smoker and did angioplasty about five years ago.
While the girl is an exception, besides smoking, drug addiction can accelerate heart disease among young people, Kusnur said.
Pandian said Covid’s condition has forced the lifestyle to settle in people, because it also emphasizes that has many origin.
For some people it can be caused by the loss of family members for Covid, for others to lose work or business, and overall uncertainty caused by the applicable situation.
Doctor reminder: Now, nothing is too young for a heart attack
