Specialists warn of the spread of cardiovascular disease among the youth - due to environmental pollution and smoking - specialists in cardiovascular diseases attributed the high incidence of these diseases in Saudi Arabia to environmental pollution, in addition to the high percentage of people with diabetes, blood pressure and an increase in obesity, denouncing the At the same time, there were cases of heart disease among the youth, especially from 25 to 30 years, after these diseases were considered diseases of the elderly.
Dr. Sherif Hashem, a consultant cardiologist and deputy head of the cardiology department at Bagedo Hospital, and Dr. Irfan attributed the infection of young people with these diseases to air pollution in addition to the high rate of smoking. Lies in that unfortunately sufferers of it at young ages ». He added, "There are cases of young people in their thirty years of age suffering from a blockage in the coronary arteries, and this is very strange."
Hashem added: “In past years we used to consider that heart diseases often afflict the elderly, but now they were surprised that they afflicted young people.” He stressed the need to refrain from causing heart disease, whether smoking or eating fast food that would cause obesity, diabetes and cholesterol .
Dr. Hussein Jbad, head of the cardiac surgery unit at King Abdul Aziz University Hospital in Jeddah, confirmed that cardiovascular disease is not a disease of youth, but rather affects the elderly. He added: "For girls, female hormones during the reproductive period protect them from arterial disease, but smoking wastes this opportunity for them."
For his part, a consultant cardiologist called for walking, but in an unpolluted atmosphere, so that pollution does not affect the arteries of the heart and lead to the opposite result, indicating that recent studies have confirmed that those who exercise in an atmosphere crowded with cars and polluted with their smoke are exposed to cardiovascular disease .
He explained that Saudi Arabia is considered one of the Arab countries with the highest incidence of heart disease equal with the Arab Republic of Egypt due to pollution and smoking, especially in addition to the high percentage of people affected by diabetes, blood pressure and weight gain.
On the developments in the field of heart surgery, between Jebad that changing valves and heart surgery is a vital and constantly renewed field, and he said: “Research today indicates that heart surgeries such as coronary artery grafts are still the best for the majority of patients suffering from sclerosis with more than one artery, especially if She was in the left part, or if they suffer from weakness in the heart muscle, the results of surgery in the long and medium term are better than stents and balloon expansion.
The latest statistics indicate that the prevalence of heart diseases in the Kingdom, such as coronary disease, reaches 6 per cent among the population, while 25 per cent suffers from diabetes, and approximately 27 per cent in the Kingdom suffer from high blood pressure, which is considered one of the main causes of disease. the heart.
This came during the medical conference held by Dr. Irfan and Bagedo Hospital the day before yesterday in Jeddah Hilton, in the presence of a number of local and international experts and specialists in cardiovascular diseases, to discuss the latest developments in its treatment and to address ways to protect against infection in light of the noticeable rise.
