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Heart attacks in very young people on the rise

Heart attacks among adults younger than 50 years of age are on the rise with the proportion of very young people increasing by 2% each year for the last 10 years, according to a team of investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Heart attacks among adults younger than 50 years of age are on the rise with the proportion of very young people increasing by 2% each year for the last 10 years, according to a team of investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In a paper published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the research team evaluated both risk factors and outcomes for this population in order to help prevent them in the first place. The investigators found that nearly one in 10 patients who suffer a first heart attack before age 50 had familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), a genetic disorder that

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