Heat attacks among American adults have surged by a whopping 66% since 2020, with so-called medical experts placing the blame on the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020
In 2019, around 0.3% of healthy young Americans between the ages of 18-44 suffered heart attacks.
However, the number jumped to 0.5%, or one in 200 last year.
This means that one in five heart attack patients is now younger than 40, a number that has never been seen before.
While Doctors are blaming drug use, obesity, sedentary lifestyles, and bad diets for the heart attack surge, they also blame the COVID-19 virus.
“There are definitely more younger people coming in with heart attacks,” Dr. Deepak Bhatt, the Director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital, told TODAY:
“There’s data to back that up. What’s driving that is more controversial.”
The Daily Mail reports: There were millions fewer visits to doctors during the early years of the pandemic, which means chronic conditions that may contribute to heart disease risk went unnoticed.
An increase in the number of young people developing type 2 diabetes, which is associated with thicker and stickier blood which raises the risk of blood clots and, in turn, heart attacks.
But in many doctors’ view, the timing is simply too coincidental for Covid not to be involved.
Studies have shown that, once in the body, the virus can cause the heart to become inflamed, a condition known as myocarditis, leading to damage that makes it harder to pump blood around the body.
Over time, in extreme cases, this can damage the organ to the point it becomes too weak to adequately pump enough blood to the rest of your body, causing heart failure.
The COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna have also been shown to cause heart inflammation in rare cases, specifically young men and boys.
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But real-world research has shown the risk of having this reaction to a vaccine is much lower than the risk you take not getting vaccinated in the first place – because severe Covid is much more likely to damage the heart.
As Disswire reported in March this year, a study went as far as to blame the heart attacks on sleeping with the blinds open, claiming it could increase risks by 43 percent.
Dr Jain-Bing Wang, a health expert involved in the paper, said:
“Our study suggests that higher levels of exposure to outdoor artificial light at night may be a risk factor for cerebrovascular disease.”
“Therefore, we advise people, especially those living in urban areas, to consider reducing that exposure to protect themselves from its potential harmful impact.”
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