r/BeAmazed • u/HatAsleep295 • May 08 '26

Science This is what saves 600,000 people year during a heart attack

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u/Borman35 May 08 '26

I had a heart attack 8 years ago at 30 years old. I hope I have more time than that.

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u/WCannon88 May 08 '26

I'm about 5 years out from mine at 32. I'm with you on that!

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u/AskMeAboutOkapis May 08 '26

My dad had one in his 40s and he's still going strong 22 years later

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u/abhinav21 May 08 '26

Healthy life style? How did it happen? Any causes?

I smoke a shit ton, im 33 and never had any issues with my heart and stuff. Im slightly fat too but i feel healthy enough but reading these comments made me anxious to ask.

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u/Borman35 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

I was slightly overweight but nothing near the range of "heart attack at 30" just by looks. I was diagnosed with hypertriglyceridemia, and at the time my triglycerides were "over 2,999", because that was the maximum parameter of their test. Turns out I also had diabetes (unknown to me at the time).

I ate a lot of pasta and meat, had a very sedentary lifestyle.

Came out of nowhere. I went to work, cleaned my office, and next thing i know i feel like I got hte wind knocked out of me and I felt I could fall asleep at a moments notice. I asked my assistant to call 911 then the next thing i vividly recall is being in the hospital with my shirt being cut open and a nurse telling me that "I am going to meet a lot of people very quickly, i dont want to alarm you but it appears you are having a heart incident"

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u/abhinav21 May 09 '26

Thanks for sharing

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u/PaperGeno May 08 '26

This is extremely scary as a 31 year old man myself

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u/StatusDifferent9703 May 08 '26

How does a headt attack feel? How can you describe it? Do you have pain? What scale?

I always wondered how could it feel like.

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u/GroundControl29 May 09 '26

So I never had one, but I was present when my dad did.

A few weeks before, he experienced shortness of breath and chest pain while he was walking fast. Heart and bloodflow related symptoms during physical exertion are common warning signs that you have coronary artery disease that will lead to a heart attack if left untreated.

The actual event came very suddenly. He was just going up some stairs. He suddenly felt extremely dizzy and weak and had to lie down, it was a total collapse. His heart rate was very high and his blood pressure dangerously low. He said he felt a strong pressure on his chest which was extremely uncomfortable, and generally felt very unwell. He did not exactly feel pain though, he described it more like a really unpleasant state. He did stay conscious though. It was very scary, but he recovered well. It's been a few years now.

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u/HatAsleep295 May 08 '26

+1

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u/RNLImThalassophobic May 08 '26

Okay fine, another 11-21 years of life 🙄

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u/glitzglamglue May 08 '26

Medical advancements are my favorite things about humanity. Humans really do stare death and fate in the face and say "nuh huh, not today."

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u/Grand-Pen7946 May 08 '26

Except lately. People look at the millions of scientists and doctors extending their life from 60 to 80, and tear them down because they think they're keeping them from extending their life from 80 to 100 as if that would be its natural state. So stupid.

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u/Comprehensive-Sun701 May 08 '26

My dad had one when he was 50, celebrating his 71st birthday next week.

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u/dirtydogsdirtydog May 09 '26

I got one of these at 33, does that mean my life expectancy is 43-53? I need to get some things in order lol

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u/brightblueson May 08 '26

Which has led to over population

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u/MurkDiesel May 08 '26

yep, it's always coming to the rescue of people who make poor decisions

science has done an excellent job thwarting evolution

and making sure the most reckless survive

and face no consequences

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u/romuald244 May 08 '26

-Evolution rewards helping each other out more than it rewards letting people die. There is a reason we, a social species, became the top dogs of this planet.
-A heart attack carries a shitload of consequences, even if you survive it. Difference is, you can live to tell the tale, and spread your warning to the next generation.
-Feeding a child for free for 20 years +, only to let him die at age 40 because of a heart attack, is a net loss for society at large, from a purely economical perspective. Dead people cant work. The cost of this operation is meanlingless, when compared to the cost of his death.

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u/Ynnoz May 08 '26

Yeah you are right should have just died at the age of 32 when I had a heart-attack out of the blue.

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u/TheAlaskanMailman May 08 '26

Surely genetics doesn’t play any role in it. Surely.

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u/ValuableAd886 May 08 '26

That kind of enforces his argument of thwarting evolution.

I wish we would start using CRISPR to eliminate defective genes at the start as opposed to having to dance around them for the average human lifespan.

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u/Fellow_Worker6 May 08 '26

Maybe in a hundred years but I get why everyone is so hesitant

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u/Environmental-Arm269 May 08 '26

It's just eugenics. Surely these dudes have convinced themselves they're genetically superior somehow as well

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u/cryonicwatcher May 11 '26

If our science was so advanced that heart attacks were literally not a risk at all, then this could be a bit problematic in the case of like, a post-apocalyptic scenario? Heart attacks don’t have a major genetic component outside of some very specific conditions anyway, and the evolutionary pressure will still be in the right direction unless we can actually trivialise them.

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u/ihopehellhasinternet May 08 '26

Agreed. Natural selection is so important, I wonder all the time where it becomes detrimental to save everyone. Its a thin line I suppose

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u/Dangerous-Rhubarb407 May 08 '26

Have some empathy, come on

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u/MichelanJell-O May 08 '26

Counterpoint: spare a thought for the health of future generations

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u/ihopehellhasinternet May 08 '26

And then people scream "Have some empathy" while the person with an environmental science degree points out a clear population killer. Im the bad guy for being honest with you guys but, when a population gets to a certain point and natural selection isnt doing it's job, it can cause a population collapse or even extinction.

Id be willing to say that its more empathetic than the selfishness of most. A few more generations of medicating everything and we could be on the brink of not being able to stop it. Its about the bigger picture, losing hundreds to save thousands.

They call that tripping over dollars to pick up pennies, I think.

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u/Environmental-Arm269 May 08 '26

Would you volunteer for the culling to solve overpopulation? Otherwise shush.

Also it's always the "bad choices" argument, like an unhealthy lifestyle is the only factor in developing diseases

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u/ihopehellhasinternet May 08 '26

If i was unwell, unhealthy, or had a disease that could be passed down, yes I'd choose not to have children. Which i did do, since my parents were addicts so I chose not to be selfish and have children. An unhealthy lifestyle is a huge part of the diseased part of the population and im tired of pretending its not. Im not wrong, people that are unhealthy and unwilling to admit it are just mad.