A comedian born in the 1980s died of a sudden heart attack! Why are heart attacks happening at younger and younger ages? Doctors teach you how to prevent them

On the morning of July 20th, the bad news came!

Lai Bao, the planner and writer of "Tonight's 80s Talk Show", died of a sudden heart attack, and his life was frozen at the age of 40.

Lai Bao, born in 1981, can be regarded as the "originator of joke tellers". His original name was Yang Xiaoxing, and "Lai Bao" was the name of his pet dog. In 2002, he serialized novels online and named the protagonist "Lai Bao". After becoming famous, Lai Bao also wrote scripts for many talk shows, such as the very popular "Tonight's 80s Talk Show", many of which were written by Lai Bao.

May the comedian rest in peace!

1. Why are myocardial infarctions happening to younger and younger people?

Many people think that cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction are diseases of the elderly. However, nowadays, we often hear about myocardial infarction in middle-aged and young people, or even younger people. Moreover, myocardial infarction in young people is often more serious than that in the elderly, and often leads to sudden death.

1. The root cause of myocardial infarction

The root cause of myocardial infarction is atherosclerosis, which is what people call the increase of blood vessel garbage. The increase of blood vessel garbage is caused by our unhealthy lifestyle and the irregular control of the three highs.

Long-term smoking, drinking, sitting for long periods of time without exercise, unhealthy diet, obesity, staying up late, high stress, unhappiness, etc. in life will lead to accelerated and aggravated atherosclerosis. The result is aggravated cardiovascular stenosis and myocardial ischemia.

If you have high blood pressure, diabetes, or high blood lipids for a long time, or if you already know that you have the three highs but do not feel uncomfortable and are unwilling to control them, the result will be accelerated accumulation of vascular waste, ultimately leading to cardiovascular stenosis and myocardial ischemia.

These two main reasons will eventually lead to the aggravation of vascular plaques. When unstable plaques rupture, they will form blood clots, which will block the cardiovascular system and cause myocardial infarction.

2. Why is the incidence of myocardial infarction increasing among young people?

Young people, especially middle-aged people, are under great pressure and work very hard. They often work overtime and stay up late for their careers, families, money, and sense of accomplishment. They are under family pressure from elderly parents and children to take care of; they are under work pressure with little chance of appreciation; they are under emotional pressure from their children going to school, their parents aging, and their spouses becoming distant; they are under various pressures from buying a house, face, and income. In addition, they think they are young, so they never pay attention to their health and never have a physical examination. On the one hand, they do not protect their bodies, and on the other hand, they do not find out in time even if they have the three highs. These reasons combined will lead to the accelerated increase of vascular garbage. Myocardial infarction will occur under the stimulation of great pressure, strenuous exercise, sudden weather changes, mood swings, insomnia, staying up late, overeating, etc.

2. Why are young people more likely to die suddenly from myocardial infarction?

1. Never take it seriously and think you are right

Young people are generally in better health than the elderly, and they don't feel uncomfortable at ordinary times. This is a natural law. The result is that young people don't pay much attention to their health, thinking that they are young and have the capital, so they work hard. The result is that they gradually overdraw their health, and their health may get worse and worse. In addition, many elderly people have diseases themselves, pay more attention to health, can find problems in time, and can actively control the three highs when they find them. Therefore, when the elderly find problems, they can control them in time, because the elderly pay more attention to health and diseases.

But this is not the case for young people. They seldom have physical examinations and do not know how to take care of themselves. As a result, small problems are delayed into big ones. Once they can no longer bear it and have to go to the hospital, it is often a serious illness.

2. Young people have no collateral circulation

Our blood vessels are like a tree. When the blood vessels of the elderly gradually develop myocardial ischemia, other new blood vessels will grow to help supply blood to the narrowed blood vessels. This is called collateral circulation. Once myocardial infarction occurs, other blood vessels are still relatively abundant and can provide a certain amount of blood supply, so the myocardial infarction is relatively milder.

However, young people have almost no collateral circulation in their blood vessels. Once a blood vessel is blocked and there are no other blood vessels to supply it with blood, myocardial necrosis will occur immediately, and the necrosis rate will be faster. Therefore, when young people suffer myocardial infarction, it is often more severe and prone to sudden death.

3. How can young people prevent myocardial infarction?

1. Everyone needs to live a healthy life + monitor the three highs. We have said above that unhealthy life and failure to control the three highs are the most fundamental causes of myocardial infarction. Therefore, whether young or old, especially young people, should live a healthy life: stay away from tobacco and alcohol, exercise regularly, control weight, eat healthily, avoid staying up late, reduce stress, etc. At the same time, you will not be reminded when the three highs occur, so middle-aged people should take the initiative to measure blood pressure, test blood sugar and blood lipids to see if there are three highs, and if so, actively control them.

2. Young people should also learn how to maintain their health. Don’t think that youth is an asset and overdraw your body for a long time, which will cause hidden dangers to your health. Health care does not mean taking health care products, and most health care products are exaggerated. Health care means healthy living, regular physical examinations, not overdrawing your body, combining work and rest, and learning to release stress.

3. See a doctor promptly if you are sick, especially if you have heart disease. Many young people think they are too young to have heart disease, so sometimes they have angina pectoris but don’t take it seriously, enduring it until they suffer myocardial infarction or even sudden death.

In short, myocardial infarction is not exclusive to the elderly. Young people may suffer more serious myocardial infarction and have a higher risk of sudden death, so young people need to pay attention to this!

We hope Lai Bao rests in peace...