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almost everyone who suffers from it heart attack Have at least one risk factor in advance exceeds healthy levelsNew Research Has been found.
one in StudyPublished in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers found that more than 99 percent of people who suffered from a heart attack the level of either was high blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar or its history Tobacco Use.
Research also showed that most heart attack victims had two or more of these risk factors, with high blood pressure being the most common.
The study’s senior author, Professor Philip Greenland, said: “The goal now is to work harder on finding ways to control these modifiable risk factors, rather than wandering off in pursuit of other factors that are not easily treatable and are not causal.
“We think the study shows very clearly that exposure to one or more non-optimal risk factors is almost 100 percent predictive of these cardiovascular outcomes.”
Researchers at Northwestern Medicine and Yonsei University analyzed two decades of health records of more than 9 million people in South Korea and 7,000 people in the US.
The study used the American Heart Association’s criteria for ideal cardiovascular health, which define four major risk factors, past or present tobacco use, blood pressure above or equal to 120/80 mmHg, cholesterol levels greater than or equal to 200 mg/dL, and fasting glucose levels greater than or equal to 100 mg/dL.
Fasting glucose level refers to the amount of sugar or glucose that is in your blood after an overnight fast. It is often used to diagnose diabetes.
The researchers examined the participants’ routine health checkup data. They found that 99 percent of people who developed coronary heart disease had at least one risk factor before having a heart attack. More than 93 percent had two or more risk factors.
The most common risk factor among participants was high blood pressure, which affected more than 95 percent of heart attack victims.
About 100,000 people are hospitalized every year due to heart attacks. A recent report from the British Heart Foundation found that coronary heart disease, which occurs when the arteries narrow, is the leading cause of premature death, responsible for around 66,000 deaths each year.