Lifestyle has a major impact on the risk factors for Heart attack (myocardial infarction). Many risk factors for myocardial infarction can be reduced with a healthy lifestyle. People in the lower social classes smoke more and eat more unhealthy food, and they also suffer more from cardiovascular disease.
Tobacco
Tobacco, snuff and other nicotine products are harmful to health. If you smoke, you have a fourfold risk of having a heart attack compared to not smoking.
Tobacco contains nicotine. Nicotine, on the other hand, narrows blood vessels, raises the heart rate and causes an alarm in the body.
E-cigarettes, there have been various vaporizers and other , they have very high nicotine levels. That nicotine is not safe either. It has been shown to increase the risk of cerebral infarction.
Many get hooked on nicotine patches and other products and don't think about the health risk.
Snuff is bad, it becomes a lot of nicotine and it adds to it. Swedish research indicates that snus use is associated with heart events and cerebrovascular events.
Unhealthy food
Unhealthy eating habits increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Cholesterol constricts blood vessels in the body. Clots can form in the arteries of the heart, clogging the blood vessels. It can result in a heart attack.
If you have high cholesterol, you have a threefold risk of having a heart attack.
When there are two risk factors, they tell each other. If you smoke and have high cholesterol, it makes 4x3 or 12. There is a 12-fold risk of having a heart attack.
High blood pressure
High blood pressure strains blood vessels and the heart. High blood pressure has a double risk of having a heart attack.
High blood pressure puts strain on the blood vessels, heart and kidneys. In addition to myocardial infarction, there is a risk of coronary heart disease and stroke.
If left untreated, high blood pressure can cause harmful changes in your blood vessels. The disease can lead to damage to the blood vessels and hardening of the arteries.
Under heavy load, the heart muscle can begin to thicken. This results in heart failure.
Diabetes
Diabetes increases the risk of heart attack. Type 2 diabetes is associated with overweight and obesity.
Diabetics have a higher than usual risk of heart attack due to that the arteries become narrower than usual and that the flow of blood in the veins is disrupted.
There is also an increased risk of atrial fibrillation.
There are clots, some of which can come off and put you at risk for a stroke.
Treatments for diabetes have evolved. There have been new drugs that lower sugar levels and reduce the complications associated with diabetes. There is no longer a need to treat your blood sugar with insulin, but there have been other effective drugs.