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Myocardial infarction in younger adults is an understudied research area.
Young adults with STEMI have a distinct risk factor profile characterized by high rates of smoking and dyslipidemia, but experience low in-hospital mortality.
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Supports targeted prevention for smoking and dyslipidemia in young adults; leaves open whether this profile warrants age-specific management changes.
Background: Myocardial infarction in younger adults is an understudied research area. Objectives: This paper reports on characteristics, risk factors, and disease outcomes of young adults with St-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).Methods: This is a sub-analysis of data from the Kermanshah Acute Coronary Syndrome Registry, including all patients aged ≤45 with STEMI (n=247) registered in the registry from June 2017 to June 2019. Results: Patients aged ≤45 constituted 10.66% of all patients with STEM; the majority was male (91.8%), and the most common CVD risk factors included: smoking (56.7%), low high-density lipoprotein (55.5%), elevated triglyceride (44.4%), hypertension (38.2%), hypercholesterolemia (38.1%), elevated low-density lipoprotein (26.3%), and obesity (24.3%). Many patients (62.8%) received primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and in-hospital mortality was low at 0.8%. Conclusions: Younger adults should be screened for CVD risk factors, and are educated and supported to participate in programs that aim to reduce risk through risk factor modification.
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