Major cause of heart attack under 40? Smoking
Friday July 10, 2009
Studies now show that smoking is the major cause of heart attacks in people under 40 years of age. Read what this means - for younger smokers, and for those not so young - here.
Explore Heart Disease
Must Reads
By Category
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Cholesterol, triglycerides
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Drugs for Heart Disease
- Exercise and Heart Disease
- Heart Healthy Diet
- Heart Valve Disease
- High Blood Pressure
- Living With Heart Failure
- Pacemakers & Defibrillators
- Palpitations & Arrhythmias
- Reducing Cardiac Risk
- Surgery, congenital, & more
- Syncope (fainting)
- Women & Heart Disease
About.com Special Features
Learn how you can reduce your your numbers with these nutrition and exercise tips. More >
Keep yourself, and your family, happy and healthy this fall with these tips. More >
Also from About.com:
©2009 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.
All rights reserved.
Comments
cooooooooooolllllllllllllllll
i think that snoking is great to releave stress and i think that it is stupid that we cannot smoke wherever we want!
well i am 37 yr female and just suffered a heart attack due to smoking. i’ve been smoking for 22 yrs and did it to myself. my whole life style must change. if you decide to understand that this is you hurting your body, you wouldn’t worry about where you should smoke!!! happy smoking or not!!! grown up!!!
Smoking also was a major factor in my heart attack. I was lucky and survived. My new life is much more rewarding without the smoking and alot healthier. My advice to any smoker GIVE IT UP