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Article: Young adults with heart disease have dramatically increased risk of death.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- March 23, 2003
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2003 MAR 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Young people who smoke, are overweight, and/or have diabetes are often not concerned about these risk factors for heart disease - they assume heart attacks and stroke only happen to folks who are much older. But a new Emory study concludes that people under 40 who are diagnosed with coronary artery disease have a dramatically increased risk of death.
"In fact, a third were dead at follow-up and, for those with diabetes, the death rate was almost two out of three," said study author Joe Miller III, MD, an Emory Heart Center cardiologist and assistant professor of preventative cardiology at Emory University School of ...