In the emergency room in the early hours of the morning, a patient with a heart attack suddenly came in, and unlike other patients, this patient had an incomparably young face, not very old at first glance, and sure enough, he was only 25 years old when asked carefully. It is true that myocardial infarction occurs at this age, but through a series of examinations such as electrocardiogram, cardiac color ultrasound, and myocardial enzyme spectrum, it can be diagnosed as "acute inferior myocardial infarction". Since the diagnosis has been confirmed, the operating table in the catheterization laboratory was pushed into the catheterization laboratory as quickly as possible, and the heart stent surgery was performed, which saved the patient's life.
Later, after communicating with the family, the cause of the patient's acute myocardial infarction was found. It turned out that 25-year-old Xiao Zhang was an Internet addict teenager, dropped out of high school after high school, usually did odd jobs in the factory during the day, and used the money earned to surf the Internet all night at night, eat instant noodles when he was hungry, drink drinks when he was thirsty, sleep in an Internet café when he was tired, wake up and play, his life and rest are extremely irregular, his family is busy with work, and he has no time to care about him, so he is allowed to go. It is said that when he had an acute myocardial infarction, he had been in the Internet café for a week, and the network administrator found an abnormality and dialed 120 in time, which allowed him to save his life.
Obviously, long-term sitting, coupled with bad lifestyle habits, has become the culprit of heart attack.
Nowadays, with the change of people's lifestyle, myocardial infarction is no longer the "patent" of the elderly, the incidence of myocardial infarction is getting higher and higher, the age of onset is getting younger and younger, and the occurrence of myocardial infarction in their 20s is no longer a rare thing. In young patients with myocardial infarction, bad lifestyle habits are the "number one killer" of myocardial infarction and the main cause of sudden death in young patients. A study investigated 19 young myocardial infarction patients with an average age of about 20 years old, and the results showed that the occurrence of myocardial infarction at a young age was nothing more than these reasons.
1. Smoking a lot before the onset of the disease
Heavy smoking in the short term is an important risk factor for myocardial infarction in men. Studies have shown that the incidence of myocardial infarction in smokers is 2-6 times that of non-smokers, and the main mechanism is that smoking will promote coronary spasm, increase the chance of thrombosis, lead to coronary artery stenosis, and then induce myocardial infarction.
2. Long-term sedentary before the onset of the disease
If a person sedentary for a long time, the workload of the heart is relatively small, the blood circulation slows down, the lipids in the blood are easy to be deposited, and the blood is in a hypercoagulable state for a long time, which is easy to cause acute myocardial infarction.
3. Overwork or emotional agitation before the onset of the disease
Young myocardial infarction patients are mostly concentrated in the fields of company executives, white-collar workers, programmers, etc., and the life of such occupations is stressful, and the mental state is in a tense state for a long time, and the myocardial oxygen consumption will also increase, which will cause atheromatous plaque instability and rupture, and induce myocardial infarction.
4. Long-term unhealthy diet
Long-term unhealthy diet can easily lead to chronic diseases such as obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and high blood sugar, and if these chronic diseases are not effectively controlled, they will induce various complications, aggravate coronary heart disease, and increase the probability of myocardial infarction.
Pain is the main symptom before a heart attack, so be especially vigilant!
1. Pre-onset manifestations
Among the patients with acute myocardial infarction, about two-thirds of the patients will have aura symptoms a few days before the onset of the disease, the most common is paroxysmal angina, followed by epigastric pain, chest tightness and breathlessness, upper limb numbness, dizziness, palpitation, shortness of breath, irritability, etc.
2. Manifestations at onset
(1) Pain: This is the most obvious symptom of acute myocardial infarction, and the typical location is the retrosternal and precordial area, which is manifested as continuous and severe pain, which is like squeezing and cutting, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, sweating, irritability, fear or a sense of impending death. In addition to the pain in the typical area, there may also be sore throat, jaw pain, toothache, left shoulder and left arm pain, stomach pain, abdominal pain and other atypical pain, rarely toe pain, thigh pain, if long-term inexplicable pain, be vigilant and seek medical attention as soon as possible.
(2) Syncope: Some patients may have no warning when they have a myocardial infarction, but suddenly faint or go into shock, fall into a coma, and in severe cases, it will directly lead to death.
(3) Sudden death: Sudden death caused by myocardial infarction is often caused by sudden malignant arrhythmia, and most of them occur outside the hospital.
If you have been in the above bad habits for a long time, and suddenly feel oppressive pain in the above parts, or have suspected myocardial infarction, you should first think of acute myocardial infarction, and call 120 for first aid as soon as possible to avoid delaying the best time for rescue.