Studies Young smokers with dramatically increase heart attack risk

Smoking increases the heart attack risk in people under 50 massively
It has long been known that smoking increases the risk of heart attack. A British study has now found that smokers under 50 are at even greater risk. With them, the risk of infarction is eight times higher than that of non-smokers of the same age.

smoke harms the health
It is well known to everyone that tobacco consumption harms health. Smokers not only get sick and die of lung cancer, they also have a higher risk of developing other cancers and cardiovascular diseases. Smoking, hypertension, obesity and physical inactivity are among the major risk factors for heart attacks. A recent study shows that this risk is particularly high in smokers under 50 years.

It has long been known that smokers are subject to a significantly higher risk of infarction. One study has now found that this risk is greater among younger tobacco users. (Image: amixstudio / fotolia.com)

Increased heart attack risk
According to a new study smoking in younger people massively increases the risk of heart attack. According to British scientists, the risk of infarction among tobacco consumers under the age of 50 is eight times higher than that of non-smokers.

"All smokers are at an increased risk, but younger ones are more vulnerable and have an eight times greater risk of having a heart attack than non-smoking peers," study author Dr. Evergrech from the Heart Center of the English city of Sheffield in a message.

Later, difference between smokers and non-smokers becomes smaller
According to the study, published in the journal "Heart", the difference between smokers and non-smokers becomes smaller with age.

Thus, the risk is five times higher in smokers between the ages of 50 and 65 than in non-smokers, and three times in smokers over the age of 65 years.

To dissuade young people from smoking
Although it has long been known that smokers are subject to a significantly higher risk of infarction, new to the study findings, however, is the staggering of the risk based on the age group.

According to study authors, smoking with regard to the risk of infarction of younger people is "perhaps the greatest of all risk factors, which develops its effect earlier than any other factor".

Scientists called for more efforts to stop young people from smoking. "Awareness of this conspicuously higher risk could enable effective targeted intervention," Dr. Grech.

Smokers suffer infarction ten years earlier
For their investigation, the researchers had evaluated data from 1,727 patients who were hospitalized between 2009 and 2012 with a heart attack. The evaluation also showed that smokers suffer on average ten years earlier a heart attack than non-smokers or ex-smokers.

According to data from the South Yorkshire study area, 27 percent of adults under the age of 50 are smokers - but 75 percent of heart attack patients under 50 years of age. (Ad)